Stroud, Oklahoma

regional weather discussion... rain will become more widespread through 5 am over western North Texas across and most of western and central Oklahoma. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible. At 215 am... radar indicated a large area of rain covering most of north central Texas and expanding northeastward across most of the northwestern two thirds of Oklahoma. Heavier rain... with hourly rainfall rates up a quarter to a half inch... extended from northwestern Texas around Benjamin and Vernon... northeast across the Lawton area into central Oklahoma near Hinton and El Reno. Heavier rain also was in northwestern Oklahoma... from neat Taloga to Cherokee. All of the rain areas were moving north at around 25 mph. The rain was occurring to the north and northwest of a nearly stationary front from near Ardmore northeastward to between Seminole and Holdenville. The front will likely not move much overnight. Temperatures will be in the upper 40s and 50s to the northwest of the front... and will remain in the upper 60s to around 70 southeast of the front.