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Oklahoma Mesonet is a cooperative venture between Oklahoma State University (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma (OU) and is supported by the taxpayers of Oklahoma. It is headquartered at the National Weather Center (NWC) on the OU campus. Observations are available free of charge to the public.
In meteorology and climatology, a mesonet, portmanteau of mesoscale network, is a network of automated weather and, often also including environmental monitoring stations, designed to observe mesoscale meteorological phenomena and/or microclimates.
The tornado then passed between Fort Reno and an Oklahoma Mesonet site, which recorded a sharp drop in atmospheric pressure, as well as a one-minute average wind speed of 115 mph (185 km/h) and a maximum wind gust of 151 mph (243 km/h) at 4:21 p.m. The gust was the highest wind speed ever recorded by the Oklahoma Mesonet.
On April 27, several tornadoes occurred in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Overnight, a significant tornado passed near Holdenville, Oklahoma, causing at least two fatalities and four injuries. A tornado impacted Sulphur, Oklahoma, as well, causing at least 30 injuries.
Alexia Aston, The Oklahoman. April 8, 2024 at 12:10 PM. Oklahomans will gaze at the sun this afternoon to catch the extremely rare event — the solar eclipse. Those in southeastern Oklahoma...
The Mesonet is a joint project between the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University under the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. Find daily rainfall totals using this Oklahoma...
May 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM. Although a line of severe storms formed Saturday afternoon and moved through Oklahoma, few tornadoes were able to form; those that did caused little damage. One tornado ...
According to the Oklahoma Mesonet, Sulphur was dealing with nearly 7 inches of rain in addition to the damage from Saturday's tornadoes. Areas near Ada and Fittstown also saw more than 5 inches...
The mesonet station at El Reno recorded a wind gust of 151 mph (243 km/h) as the tornado passed by, which set a record for the highest wind speed observed by the Oklahoma Mesonet. This was the first EF5 tornado to strike Oklahoma since 1999, when an F5 tornado killed 36 people in and around southern and central parts of the Oklahoma City ...
Part of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak and Tornadoes of 1999. The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was a large, long-lived and exceptionally powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally were recorded at 135 metres per second (302 mph; 486 km/h) by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar.