Tornadoes rip through Morris, tornado watch active until 3 a.m

Chief Meteorologist Travis Meyer is live at the Bob Mills Weather Center on Saturday as severe storms move across Green Country.

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A confirmed tornado touched down in the Wagoner, Oklahoma area around 12:50 p.m. Sunday and continued toward Toppers and Fort Gibson Lake.

A tornado has been confirmed to be on the ground near the Morris, Oklahoma area. It moves northeast toward Boyton, Midway, Eram and Jamesville.

Tulsa to the west is free of severe weather and should hopefully stay that way. However, damaging wind and tornado threats will continue to occur along the leading edge of this slow-moving squall line.

Several tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma on Saturday. Strong winds, rain, hail and flooding caused damage to Norman, Sulfur, Stillwater and other cities across the state.

Active Clocks and Alerts:

1. Tornado warning for Osage County until 12:45 p.m
2. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning is in effect until 12:45 a.m. for McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa and Wagoner Counties, OK.
3. 18 Green Country/Central Oklahoma counties are under a tornado watch until 3 a.m.: Cherokee, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington .

Outages across Oklahoma:

Northeast Oklahoma is home to several utilities and electric cooperatives, many with overlapping service areas. Below you will find a link to various failure maps.

PSO failure map

OG&E outage map

VVEC failure map

Indian Electric Cooperative (IEC) outage map.

Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives outage map – (Note that several smaller cooperatives are included)

What is the chance of storms this weekend in Oklahoma?

Saturday morning through midday, there is a slight chance of a few showers or storms developing in the warm sector of central and eastern OK as strong southeast winds continue to blow at 20 to 40 mph.

The next powerful upper air channel will move east and could also produce a few showers or storms along and west of I-35 by early afternoon.

A dry line is expected to be in place over west-central OK, where additional supercellular storms are likely to develop during the late afternoon and early evening. This activity will move northeast across a portion of central OK and eventually move into portions of eastern OK on Saturday evening.

Storms of all kinds are likely. As the low jet becomes stronger shortly after sunset, the potential for tornadic activity may increase.

Later in the evening, storms tend to form line segments as the upper flow becomes more parallel to a weak Pacific front that overtakes the dry line as it moves west to east. Severe threats will continue, but heavy rainfall and flash flooding may occur in some locations.

Some of these storms may continue into the overnight hours into early Sunday morning, but are also expected to gradually weaken as they slowly move eastward after early Sunday morning.

There remains a chance of recovery in the far eastern portions of the state Sunday afternoon, but further north of the region there will be increased pressure on the upper levels.

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