Tulsa weather: Cool on Monday, but severe storms loom this week
Tulsa wraps up March with chilly, below-normal temperatures, but an active weather pattern is just around the corner. Cloud cover is beginning to thin west of Tulsa, but highs will struggle to reach the upper 50s—far from the 68°F average for this time of year.
Cooler Weather Returns Today Before More Severe Storms Midweek
Cooler weather returns today, with highs reaching the upper 50s to lower 60s.
A weak wave nearby will produce a few morning clouds before becoming mostly sunny by midday to afternoon.
Winds will be light from the north early in the day before increasing speeds from 10 to 15 mph.
Later tonight, winds will return from the south with increasing speed overnight into Tuesday morning.
Tuesday features the return of gusty south winds and a quick warmup with afternoon highs reaching the mid to upper 70s.
South winds from 20 to 35 mph will quickly bring low-level moisture back across the state before a strong storm system.
Severe Thunderstorms Possible Late Tuesday Night into Wednesday Morning
A strong storm system will approach Tuesday, bringing severe thunderstorm threats late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning.
A layer of warm air aloft (the cap) may suppress storm development for most of Tuesday evening, but the cap should weaken with storms becoming possible either late Tuesday or, most likely, early Wednesday morning.
All modes of severe weather, including large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes, will be possible.
Additional storms are likely on Wednesday morning as a cold front moves eastward throughout the day.
Severe Weather Risk Tuesday Night
The first day of April will bring gusty winds and highs in the 70s, setting the stage for the next severe storm system late Tuesday night into early Wednesday. The main threats include:
🌩️ Large Hail
💨 Damaging Winds (60-80 mph)
🌪️ Isolated Tornadoes Possible
Storms are expected to develop around 10-11 p.m. Tuesday, intensifying along a cold front. By Wednesday afternoon, the system will push into Arkansas, shifting the severe weather risk east.
Wednesday through Late Week
Early Wednesday morning, a line or broken line of thunderstorms is expected to move eastward with ongoing severe threats.
By midday, the cold front will push storms into far eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, taking most of the activity out of the area by Wednesday afternoon.
Severe weather risks will intensify in neighboring states Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
The front that attempts to move across eastern OK Wednesday will more than likely stall along the Red River Valley late Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Additional scattered showers and storms may develop due to the arrival of another upper-level disturbance combined with this boundary.
Some strong to severe storms will be possible Thursday, mostly in southern Oklahoma and northern Texas.
Showers and storms will be possible in the Tulsa metro Thursday, but severe weather threats should mostly stay to the south.
Unsettled Weekend Weather
Another storm system is expected this weekend with a broad trough to our west embedded in the southwest upper air flow.
This will bring periods of rain and some thunder into Oklahoma at times this weekend. Some pockets of heavy rainfall will be likely across part of eastern OK.
Severe weather threats this weekend should be to our south, mostly across Texas.
Temperatures will trend cooler with highs in the 50s for the weekend.
Need-to-know severe weather prep:
🔗Severe weather safety: what you need to know to prepare
🔗Tornado Watch vs. Tornado Warning: what they mean and what to do
🔗Severe weather safety: what to do before, during, and after a storm
Emergency Info: Outages Across Oklahoma:
Northeast Oklahoma has various power companies and electric cooperatives, many of which have overlapping areas of coverage. Below is a link to various outage maps.
- PSO Outage Map
- OG&E Outage Map
- VVEC Outage Map
- Indian Electric Cooperative (IEC) Outage Map
- Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Outage Map — (Note Several Smaller Co-ops Included)
The Alan Crone morning weather podcast link from Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0dCHRWMFjs4fEPKLqTLjvy
The Alan Crone morning weather podcast link from Apple:
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