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Extreme meteorologist Dr. Reed Timmer reported from Oklahoma on the evening of March 4 as severe thunderstorms developed across the Plains for the first of several days.
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00:00We've got the first wall cloud of the year with this supercell storm near Caddo, Oklahoma.
00:06You can see that it has an inflow tail feeding right into it.
00:09Some scud rising up from the ground up into this storm.
00:12Big lightning on this. We've got a nice hail shaft right here on the back side of the storm.
00:18Zooming out, you can see the structure.
00:20Nice cigarette cloud, inflow band feeding into it.
00:23Very deep moisture out here. We've got two points of about 66.
00:27Surface temperature is 78 degrees, and this thing is rapidly organizing.
00:32This is the first supercell storm in southeastern Oklahoma.
00:35There's a lot more bulk shear to the north of the Red River right now,
00:39and that is helping to organize these supercell storms.
00:42There are more blobs of convection down near the DFW Metroplex.
00:46Clusters of storms down there with a lot less bulk shear.
00:49They're having trouble to organize, but we are going to continue to track this storm through southeastern Oklahoma.
00:54A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for this area.
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