Tornado watch for eastern Oklahoma active until 6 p.m

On Monday, strong storms will move across the state with tornadoes, heavy rain and strong winds, and some hail.

As of 5:30 p.m., the tornado warning has expired in Adair County. Currently, most of eastern Oklahoma is under a tornado watch that ends at 6 p.m

A confirmed tornado moved quickly northeast over Lake Tenkiller and into Cookson around 3 p.m. Chief Meteorologist Travis Meyer said this will move toward the Keys and eventually Tahlequah.

In Rogers County, a possible tornado left damage near Talala. Related: Viewer video shows a tornado forming in Talala

Tornado-like weather occurred in the Talala area around 1 p.m. News On 6 has teams working to gather information about this event.

Clocks and Alerts:

Monday's storms are divided into two strong sections, with one storm hitting the north and the other hitting the south.

A tornado watch has been issued for Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, Le Flore, Lincoln, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha and Rogers, Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington County to 6:00 p.m.

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Precipitation in Oklahoma

Multiple rounds of heavy rain have resulted in several inches of rainfall across the region, and more heavy rain will occur until the main system fails.

Local flood warnings remain in place in some locations this morning, while much of the area is also under flood warning until the evening. Isolated storms continue to develop in eastern Oklahoma this morning, resulting in heavy rain. Some cells may experience gusty winds and some hail.

A warm front will position itself over southern OK early this morning and will move northwestward as the main upper-level low approaches and pressure begins to fall. A low pressure system should develop in the western areas of North Texas early this morning and move into central OK around 12-1 p.m

Later this morning into the afternoon, the main upper level system approaches the region, bringing a dry line and a Pacific cold front to the area as well as additional risk for severe storms. All types of severe weather are possible, including tornadoes.

Additional tornado warnings are expected to be issued later today for locations along and east of the I-44 corridor, which stretches across the eastern third of the state into Arkansas and surrounding areas.

Today's highs will reach the lower 70s, with a chance of a storm, including severe threats, as it moves eastward from the metro into Arkansas during the evening at least midday through the afternoon. Southerly winds of 15 to 25 mph are likely, with conditions mostly cloudy.

This low will move northeast this afternoon. A dry line is assigned to the surface low. Along and ahead of the dry line and near and south of the warm front, the highest chance of tornadoes occurs later in the day and early evening. Devastating gusts of wind and isolated hail are also possible.

While isolated storms will continue across the eastern third of the state this morning, strong to severe storms will return near I-35 in the early afternoon, developing near the metro area around 3:00 p.m Tulsa and moving along and east of Highway 69 around 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m

Most storms will exit the state between 8 and 9 p.m. Please understand that the timing of the storm may change.

The front should clear the area later this evening with cooler and drier air following the frontal passage. The strong upper level jet with mean winds of 90 to 100 knots will not clear the area until early Tuesday morning, but we expect dry air to enter the system and quickly end the precipitation as it exits the state.

The exception could be a few spotty showers early Tuesday morning in far southeastern OK. Seasonal and pleasant conditions will be likely for Election Day and Wednesday before another strong, upper-level system begins to impact our weather Thursday through part of the weekend, bringing additional thunderstorm chances, including severe weather threats.

Election Day will see decreasing clouds with morning lows in the upper 40s and lower 50s with highs in the lower to mid 60s. Light northerly winds will prevail for most of the day through early Wednesday morning, with morning lows in the lower to mid 40s.

On Wednesday afternoon, southerly winds return at 10 to 15 mph, skies will be partly cloudy and highs will be in the mid to upper 60s.

Some inconsistencies in the data keep the chance of storms spread out from Thursday through at least Saturday, until a higher risk of storms emerges in a particular scenario. Based on the overhead line, severe weather threats are reported Thursday evening through part of the weekend.

Emergency Information: Outages Across Oklahoma:

Northeast Oklahoma is home to several utilities and electric cooperatives, many of which have 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)

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