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NewsThere are 7 more messages available to logged in users only! Login to see them.4/30/2010 - kelbake Second Year of VORTEX2 Project Set to Begin May 1st. The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2 (VORTEX2) is the largest tornado research project in history to explore how, when and why tornadoes form. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are supporting more than 100 scientists and students and staff from around the world to collect weather measurements around and under a supercell thunderstorm. VORTEX2 teams are using a fleet of 10 mobile radars, and 70 other instruments all equipped with cutting-edge communication and computer technologies. Much about tornadoes remains a mystery, and researchers hope this data will help them better understand tornadoes and lead to further improvements in tornado warning skill. This years field operations will take place from May 1st through June 15th. 4/21/2010 - kelbake Active Weather Pattern An active weather pattern is shaping up for today through the first half of the weekend. (April 21st - 23rd) Before the system pushes completely through, several impulses will swing through, giving us chances of thunderstorms each day. Chances of severe weather will increase later in the week as well, peaking Friday afternoon and evening. This system appears to bring us our best chances of significant severe weather so far this season. Please take time to review preparedness plans with family, friends, and co-workers. The time you spend preparing now, can reap dividends later. 7/7/2009 - sbluford New Web Home for OkArkSkywarn - a few hiccups but working! All, Our hosting provider (Tulsa.Com) has been moving us to a new home server and we had a few days where the site was not working or working intermitently. I believe that most of the functionality you have come to enjoy is back online but if you find something not working, please email me at sbluford@valornet.com and I will address it asap! Thanks for our continued support and have a good Summer! Steve 3/27/2010 (updated) - sbluford 2010 Storm Spotter Training The NWS Tulsa is once again starting up their Storm Spotter Training sessions. These are the best way to educate and prepare yourself for severe weather and they are a requirement to be an effective spotter. Click here for class schedules and we hope to see you at a session! 4/11/2008 (updated) - jgenung Additional Link System Repeater A new link system repeater has been installed and declared operational in Edmond, Oklahoma. TARC's newest addition will operate on 443.250 Mhz and requires a PL tone of 88.5. 4/1/2008 (updated) - sbluford NWS and OkArkSkywarn Weather Alerts via Email - Q&A!! In January, we rolled out an enhanced weather email alert system for our members. This system allows you to register up to 3 email addresses, as well as up to 3 text devices, to receieve any or all of 20+ weather products produced by the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Tulsa. This system is FREE to all members and should be a very positive addition to the tools used by Emergency Managers and Skywarn volunteers in helping to protect our communities. It is also just a great way to stay up to date with weather and be alerted of developing situations of interest to you. There are three steps required to use the system. 1. Have an account on the www.okarkskywarn.org website. 2. Register your email and text devices on the website. 3. Select the products, counties, and alert levels that meet your needs. That's it!! There have been a few questions as expected, so we will be creating a FAQ for this service soon. In the mean time, if you have any questions feel free to send them to us at: okarkskywarn@valornet.com We also welcome any feedback on this new system, good or bad, so let us know! 2/18/2008 (updated) - sbluford A fresh face for 2008! It's finally here! After months of work, we are proud to present the updated OkArk Skywarn home. The first thing you probably notice is that we now support Winter weather alert levels at the top of our pages! All of our threat warning levels are tied directly to the forcasters at the NWS's Tulsa office. As soon as they determine that a severe spring, or a winter weather threat is possible for any of the counties in their coverage area, this webpage will automatically reflect their assessment. We are also proud to roll-out our new Email Forecast System (EFS). This system allows you to subscribe to over 20 types of direct forecast and warning products from the NWS Tulsa office. Many of the products are county based letting you select the specific county or counties you want to get the products for. The goal of our enhanced website is to simplify the content and remove some clutter we had on the old site. Don't fear... nothing was really removed, it was simply re-arranged a bit, hopefully in a more managable format. In fact we expect that all of your bookmarks will even still work! However, with all new things, there are bound to be some "issues", so please send us any problem or questions to the OkArkSkywarn Webmaster and we will sort them out. Please let us know if you have good things to say about the site as well! Thanks for your support of OkArkSkywarn.org! 1/23/2008 - sbluford NWS Tulsa December 2007 ICE Storm Media Summary The NWS Tulsa office has produced a very informative media stream review of the historic December 2007 ice storm in NE Oklahoma. If you like the howss and why's behind our weather, this is a great source for this event! Click Here for the stream. 1/23/2008 - sbluford NWS Tulsa January 7-8 Tornado Event Summary The NWS Tulsa office has released a streaming media presentation on the January Tornado outbreak. These are very informative and well done and certainly worth the watch for weather enthusiasts. The stream is accesible by clicking here. 1/4/2007 (updated) - sbluford Gibson Ridge Radar Software Several have asked about the Gibson Ridge Radar Software. You can download it at www.grlevelx.com. What is known as Level III WSR-88D data are available free and the GRLevel III software ($80) is hard-coded to retrieve the free data. The Level II WSR-88D data are a more raw form of the information and not as widely available. Iowa State University feeds data from all 88D sites for free. I will edit this soon with the URL for this data feed. The Level II software ($250) can make 3D radar images. These same Level II data, plus a lot of other really good data sets (including APRS positions) are available from Allison House for a small fee...about $20 / month...at: http://www.allisonhouse.com/ The Gibson Ridge software allows you to load GIS shape files to display any map background you can find or make. You can also plot other data in the software...WFO Tulsa has some experimental feeds that plot storm reports and our outlooks (warnings are plotted automatically in the software). You can find free surface data plots...including Mesonet...and SPC watches at: http://grlevel3.tornadocentral.com/ We will have this software on the net controller desk soon. |
