May 31st, 2013 was a day to be remembered indeed for me and many other people, as the largest tornado in recorded history, at 2.6 miles wide, as an EF5 tornado, with winds up to 295 mph, threatened El Reno, Yukon, Bethany, Warr Acres, The Oklahoma City Metro Area, Oklahoma, Will Rogers Airport and Oklahoma [...]
Severe storms continue to develop in a way in which they pulsate up then collapse and pulsate upward again and then collapse. These storms have been capable of producing large damaging hail and damaging winds. These storms were slow in nature and remained near or around Oklahoma City and north and east of Oklahoma City. [...]
Next Winter will be the starting point for the next Little Ice Age! The Ice Man is coming to the United States and to most of Planet Earth! We expect a powerful pattern change in the weather that will change the Polar Jet Stream in a way that extreme cold will be pulled down from [...]
The NWS has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Northern AL, Northern GA, Western, NC, Middle and Eastern TN, and Upstate, S.C. effective from now until 8:00P.M. EDT. The primary threat with these storms will be strong wind gusts to 80 mph with very large hail up to two inches or more and even a [...]
Ahead of a very unstable air mass across the Southeastern U.S., storms will continue to develop and will be capable of producing widespread damage in many areas. Storms have already quickly fired across Tennessee and southern Kentucky and are now moving in an east-southeast direction across the North Carolina mountains. Additional storm development is almost [...]
Beginning this summer, Firsthand Weather will begin hiring new employees to become apart of the Firsthand Weather forecasting team. Our goal is to build a team of dedicated weather forecasters that will write forecasts that are understandable to our viewers and show consistent accuracy. Becoming apart of Firsthand Weather will involve going through a multi-step [...]
Areas of the upper Mississippi Valley, which includes, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio will be in the line of fire for severe storms today. A cold frontal boundary, along with it’s associated cold front will move into this region today. As a result of strong surface heating, moisture spreads and high Cape Values, along with a [...]
Hurricane Season is here and we have to be prepared to forecast these type of storms as well. This involves letting viewers out their know about these storms and the dangers that these large storms at sea can cause. The National Hurricane Center each year has a list of storm names that they give to [...]
Severe storms are possible for the plains states yet again today and Sunday morning. From the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, to western Oklahoma, to central Kansas, to Nebraska, to Iowa, will see the potential for severe thunderstorms. Large damaging hail up to golfball size, destructive winds up to 70 mph will be possible with [...]
The remnants of what used to be Tropical Storm Andrea, making it Post-Tropical Cyclone Andrea continues to move up the east coast states. Here are the coordinates of Post-Tropical Cyclone Andrea: As of 5:00 PM EDT Fri Jun 7, the location of Andrea was: 36.1°N, 77.8°W. Andreas’ movement was: NE at 28 mph. It’s minimum [...]
Man I tell you. Oklahoma has just been getting rocked and slammed by severe weather. From tornadoes, to severe thunderstorms over and over again, to flooding and flash flood, Oklahoma has just been getting hammered the last couple of days. When we thought it was over, here comes the severe weather again and also the [...]
If you live in YUKON, RICHLAND, WILEY POST AIRPORT, BETHANY or any where near OKC, in Oklahaoma; TAKE COVER NOW!! VIOLENT TORNADO is on the ground just to your east. This Tornado is a mile wide and it is on the ground headed east-southeast at 20 MPH. If you live anywhere at or just south [...]