Power Outage in Ringold, OK

Thunderstorm Wind. Numerous trees and power lines downed throughout McCurtain County.

June 17, 2023

A Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) developed during the late afternoon and early evening hours on June 9th over Western and Central Kansas, near a shortwave trough that drifted east-southeast into the Southern Plains that evening. While this complex of storms weakened as it moved through Oklahoma during the overnight hours, showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of these storms re-intensified by mid and late morning on the 10th across extreme Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas as moderate instability developed with the onset of daytime heating ahead of the trough. Despite the weak shear in place, these storms were able to organize into another MCS as it moved through East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon hours, producing multiple reports of damaging winds which downed trees and power lines, as well as isolated instances of large hail before exiting the region into Southeast Texas and Central Louisiana by early evening.

June 10, 2023

Thunderstorm Wind. Multiple power poles were damaged just southeast of Eagletown.

May 08, 2023

Thunderstorm Wind. Trees reported down on power lines along Highway 3 just east of Broken Bow.

March 02, 2023

A deep southwesterly flow aloft prevailed across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on January 30th-February 2nd, ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system that drifted through Southern California, the Desert Southwest into Northern Mexico. Meanwhile, a strong but shallow arctic cold front shifted south through the Southern Plains on the January 29th-30th, before slowing significantly in the higher terrain of the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. Weak upper level disturbances embedded in this flow ahead of the low resulted in widespread sleet and freezing rain across much of the Southern Plains given the warm air above this shallow, freezing air mass, with areas of light freezing rain affecting portions of East Texas, extreme Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas on January 30th-February 2nd. Temperatures through the period ranged from a couple of degrees either side of the freezing mark across McCurtain County Oklahoma, with light ice accumulations ranging from a glaze up to 0.15 inches, mainly on elevated objects such as bridges and overpasses, trees and power lines. ||The following are freezing rain reports across various locations in McCurtain County:||Valliant: 0.15 inches; Smithville: 0.15 inches; 1SW Idabel: 0.10 inches; Battiest: 0.06 inches; 1ENE Haworth: 0.05 inches.

February 01, 2023