00:00Storm chaser Aaron Jajak is live from Carnegie, Oklahoma.
00:03Mr. Jajak, you've captured some amazing videography over the past couple days.
00:08What's the status right now?
00:12Yeah, I'm down here in Oklahoma.
00:14I was up here in Oklahoma yesterday tracking the threat, the storm system that's now racing off to the east,
00:19that main energy up there in Illinois right now, as you mentioned, producing those,
00:23have those tornado warnings, ongoing tornado warnings right now.
00:25But we tracked a lone supercell last night, started off in the Oklahoma panhandle,
00:30crossed through the Texas panhandle briefly before coming back into Oklahoma.
00:33It was tornado warned, produced multiple tornado warnings.
00:36Don't know that there was actually a confirmed tornado in there,
00:39but there was a big supercell that brought with it, big-time winds.
00:43It was one of the most powerful wind event supercells I've been around in a while,
00:48but very strong winds, hail, and it moved to the southeast, down to Weatherford, Oklahoma,
00:54before eventually forming into more of a bowing segment
00:56and producing more tornado warnings up to the north of Oklahoma City.
01:00So, wasn't able to make it up to Illinois for the threat up there today,
01:04but we do have a threat down here in Oklahoma today.
01:06On the very tail end of this storm system we've been tracking the last couple of days,
01:11supercells are possible.
01:13The main threat being wind and hail.
01:16There is a very low risk for a tornado threat here,
01:18but we'll be targeting down here in Oklahoma, down in that Red River region,
01:22a lot in Oklahoma, down to maybe even Wichita Falls, Texas,
01:25towards sunset when we expect supercells to potentially fire along that boundary.
01:30So, not a big threat down here,
01:32but we'll definitely be tracking the storms for you all this afternoon.
01:35Back to you guys.
01:36Yeah, absolutely.
01:37So, Aaron, we normally try to stress that most people associate with the Southern Plains'
01:40severe weather season, especially tornado season, to be March, April, May,
01:44but we can also see some pretty potent storms in June, even July as well.
01:51Yeah, you know, and that's totally correct.
01:53You know, when you get into June, July, you get a lot of that available potential energy,
01:58a lot of juice in the atmosphere.
02:00You can get those big-time supercells.
02:02You may not have the shear that you normally have in those earlier months in spring
02:05that can bring the tornadoes with it,
02:07but you can get supercells that can produce big-time hail and big-time winds here.
02:11And, of course, any time you do get a supercell, a tornado is definitely possible,
02:14as you can see in Nebraska the other day.
02:17It wasn't a big environment for tornadoes, just a low risk for tornadoes there,
02:20but we had a supercell and it produced a tornado for over an hour.
02:23So, tornadoes can happen any time you get a supercell,
02:26and we'll be looking for those today for you guys.
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