What's was the name of this tropical storm over OKC?

[Jerk]

I've never been in one, it's pretty cool.

Early this morning it was really well defined, even had an 'eye'

[Jerk]

I found out it was tropical storm "Erin"

It is now a tropical depression and the eye is over north okc.

[Newbomb Turk]

I think it rained a little bit:

Rainfall totals at 7:15 a.m., according to the Oklahoma Mesonet:
Fort Cobb 9.33
El Reno 8.48
Minco 7.94
Walters 6.66
Weatherford 6.54
Washington 5.75
Chickasha 5.67
Apache 5.53
OKC West 5.48
Ketchum 5.42
Medicine Park 5.28
Hobart 5.28
Norman 5.19
Ninnekah 4.83
Watonga 4.83
Guthrie 3.31
Tipton 2.82
Bessie 2.60
Hollis 2.29
Grandfield 1.99
Erick 1.94
Altus 1.93
Perkins 1.63
Spencer 1.62
Mangum 1.61

[jk the sooner fan]

just saw that on the news here, amazing you can still see the eye...

[Cam]

We're land locked in Mustang for at least a few hours. Tried to hit 7-11 this morning and 3 out of the 4 ways out were flooded and the 4th was nearing impassable.

It's not nearly as bad here as in Edmond though. And Ski Island looks as if it's about to lose it's island classification.

[Mjcpr]

We'd like some of that please, thanks.

[Petro-Sooner]

Woke up this morning and noticed the radar. Thinking what the heck is going on. I had never seen that before in OK.

[Newbomb Turk]

Early this morning it was really well defined, even had an 'eye'

A shot from earlier this morning


http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3967/erincm1.th.gif (http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=erincm1.gif)

[Jerk]

Newbomb, that is an awesome pic.

I woke up this morning, turned on the TV, and was like WTF!?

[Newbomb Turk]

Newbomb, that is an awesome pic.

I woke up this morning, turned on the TV, and was like WTF!?

me too. Heard all of the noise at around 5:00, couldn't believe that the storm looked that "hurricane like".

[soonerloyal]

I just got a call from my grandmother in Altus, about OKC and Norman (bear in mind, I'm 1300 miles away in FL). I answer the phone, "Hello?". Without preamble, Nannie says "Oh my God, have you heard about Norman?" "Uh, no, Nannie...what's going on?" "It's GONE."

I BEG YOUR PARDON?

Okay, she's lived 87 years so I cut her some slack...but I about had a heart attack. I ask a few hurried questions, feeling guiltily thrilled that my middle Marine is in MO helping his GF pack to move to Norman. I turn on CNN, hoping to find info, and log onto the net, pulling up three windows for 4, 5 and 9 (yeah, I know they're not really those channels now, but they are for my memory).

Come to find out, yeah y'all have gotten rain, winds, tornado watches and stuff...but y'all are obviously still there, right?

Jeebus, I gotta ask Nannie if the dramatics comes from her time in the classrooms of Poke U.

Seriously, are y'all okay??

[Petro-Sooner]

We're fine. Lots of rain, some wind damage around the metro, flash flooding. Nothing that we havent seen before.

[StormySooner-IN]

Saw that this morning on the NWS Natl view, thought I'd come over here and see how yall was doing.


Sure wish you'd send of it up here. Were more than half a foot below normal of Precip for summer, and are in a Severe drought. Not to metion we had a non-existant severe weather season.


We've seen alot of pictures and videos on the National News from the flooding down there from the past months.

Stay safe, and try not to drown.:)

[rufnek05]

it's oklahoma, i'm not surprised by anything anymore.

[King Crimson]

looks pretty cool.

[GottaHavePride]

PG's down there and she hasn't even mentioned the rain on the phone.

[SoonerStormchaser]

All this rain and no one bothers to thank me for bringing this home with me from San Antonio. Jeez, what a bunch of ungreatful biznachos!

[soonerboomer93]

i'm sure they'll get around to thanking you in their own special way...

[Soonerus]

I think it's the most rain Norman has ever had in such a short period of time...unbelievable.....

[StormySooner-IN]

All this rain and no one bothers to thank me for bringing this home with me from San Antonio. Jeez, what a bunch of ungreatful biznachos!

Thanks a lot fellow weatherman for not sharing any with me!

;)

[OUstud]

So Tulsa's mascot isn't as ridiculous anymore I guess...

[SelmaBamaFan]

Meh, All I noticed was a steady rain, but I guess im used to worse when it comes to tropical storms. The extensive tornado coverage was quite interesting though.

[OUMonster]

I wasn't here at the time, but people down here talk about Tropical Storm Allison like it was last year where it rained over 36 inches total and 6 inches per hour in some areas. A storm much like Erin basically came over the city then stopped, did a U-turn and just sat there.

[jk the sooner fan]

allison was a bitch.......major flooding in houston from her

[tulsaoilerfan]

Supposedly areas around Okmulgee Lake got 10 inches; Hwy 75 even had to be closed off and i don't ever recall that happening

[SoonerBOI]

you guys in Norman are all over CNN.

[SteelClip49]

2 friends of mine (one is studying broadcast meteorology at Miss State and the other at TAMU) said they were taught that it can no longer be a tropical storm or depression that far inland but the news stations kept referring to it as a TS and a TD. The one at TAMU said after it has been inland for more than 48 hours it's referred to as a low pressure system. This is a first she said (one at TAMU).

She is a grad student in meteorology and will make some contacts tomorrow on this. This is the report I gave her and she was totally in shock.

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/ERIN/ERIN_21.html

[Soonerus]

I am telling you it was nasty...

[Jerk]

I was in the play room and wife had on the news and I could have sworn they said that the winds from this storm made it a CAT 1. Can anyone confirm this? That would be cool! We had a Cat 1 hurricane hit okc!

OKC > Tulsa

[Soonerus]

Yes, that was reported on TV...and I believe it was true from a rain standpoint....un-fricken-believable....

[SelmaBamaFan]

I was in the play room and wife had on the news and I could have sworn they said that the winds from this storm made it a CAT 1. Can anyone confirm this? That would be cool! We had a Cat 1 hurricane hit okc!

OKC > Tulsa


The news report I saw had wind gusts up to 80 mph, but I think hurricane winds are measured by substained winds.

[Soonerus]

The RAIN was the problem not the winds....

[Jerk]

The one at TAMU said after it has been inland for more than 48 hours it's referred to as a low pressure system. This is a first she said (one at TAMU).



http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/ERIN/ERIN_21.html

Bullsh*t! When it went over Lake Hefner, it was no longer 'inland'! Therefore it was a Hurricane! A real honest to God Hurricane! Yes!

[SteelClip49]

lol Jerk!!!! I like that assessment.

[TUSooner]

Here's the so-called "landphoon" in motion, from Weather Underground. It does look awesomey.

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/2007/erin_okc.gif