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AWUS84 KTSA 051453
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EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
955 AM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

TEMPERATURES EARLY THIS MORNING RANGED FROM THE MID 40S IN A FEW 
AREAS ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST 
ARKANSAS...INTO THE MID AND UPPER 50S IN MOST OTHER LOCATIONS. A 
LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVERNIGHT IN 
NORTHEAST TEXAS. WEAKENING STORMS CROSSED THE RED RIVER INTO 
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA BETWEEN 5 AND 7 AM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS RANGED FROM 
SIX HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH IN SOUTHEAST PUSHMATAHA COUNTY...TO A 
QUARTER OF AN INCH ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY. THROUGHOUT  
THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION...SKIES WERE PARTLY CLOUDY...WITH A 
LIGHT SOUTHEAST WIND. 

BY MID MORNING...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY WEAKENING AREA OF 
SHOWERS LINGERING ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST 
OKLAHOMA...MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. SKIES ACROSS MOST OF THE 
REGION REMAINED PARTLY CLOUDY...WITH INCREASING WINDS FROM THE SOUTH 
SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS 
PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY MOVING INTO THE EASTERN PART OF 
THE STATE LATER TONIGHT. ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE EXISTS THAT THE 
SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL REACH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS BY LATE TONIGHT.  

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