Grady

... A Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect until 1145 PM CDT
for southeastern Comanche... northern Stephens and southwestern Grady
counties...

At 1123 PM CDT... National Weather Service meteorologists continued to
detect a severe thunderstorm located 11 miles east of Lawton... moving
northeast at 45 mph.

Hazards in the warning include...
half dollar size hail...
damaging winds in excess of 60 mph...

Locations impacted include...
Marlow... Rush Springs and Central High.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

Move inside a sturdy building until the storm has passed.

Lat... Lon 3448 9830 3460 9837 3482 9793 3458 9779
      3451 9817 3451 9824 3449 9825
time... Mot... loc 0423z 243deg 37kt 3459 9820

The National Weather Service has issued Severe Thunderstorm Watch
177 until 3 am CDT Sunday. Tornado Watch 171 has expired. The new
watch is valid for the following areas

In Oklahoma the new watch includes 11 counties

In central Oklahoma

Cleveland Grady Lincoln
McClain Payne Pottawatomie

In southern Oklahoma

Garvin Jefferson Stephens

In southwest Oklahoma

Comanche Cotton

This includes the cities of... Chandler... Chickasha... Duncan...
Lawton... Moore... Norman... Pauls Valley... Purcell... Shawnee...
Stillwater... Walters and Waurika.

... Record warmest maximum temperature broken at Wichita Falls...

The record warmest maximum temperature for may 18 at Wichita Falls
was 98 degrees... which was set back in 1967. So far today at
Sheppard Air Force base... the high temperature has been 101
degrees... which has broken the record for this date.

Temperature records for Wichita Falls date back to 1923.

05/18/2013 0905 PM

Minco, Grady County.

Thunderstorm wind damage, reported by other federal.


            1 ft diameter tree downed




05/18/2013 0905 PM

2 miles SSW of Minco, Grady County.

Thunderstorm wind gust m58.00 mph, reported by mesonet.





05/18/2013 0905 PM

Minco, Grady County.

Thunderstorm wind damage, reported by other federal.


            1 ft diameter tree downed




05/18/2013 0905 PM

2 miles SSW of Minco, Grady County.

Thunderstorm wind gust m58 mph, reported by mesonet.





05/18/2013 0905 PM

2 miles SSW of Minco, Grady County.

Thunderstorm wind gust m58 mph, reported by mesonet.