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Late Winter Storm Delivers Hail, High Winds to Seminole
It’s not yet officially spring, but severe weather normally associated with the season tore across Seminole County late Wednesday afternoon.
High winds and small hail began to batter the area at around 4 p.m. as a cold front moved in from western Oklahoma. By early evening, the temperature had plunged into the 30s after surpassing the 70-degree mark earlier in the day.
No damages were reported, but many local residents were seemingly caught off guard by the sudden change in the weather.
“I left Seminole around 1:30 to take my daughter to her horse lessons, and it was sunny and in the 60s outside,” said Bryan Guthrie. “I got to Harrah and it was windy, colder and raining. We got back to Seminole to find a pretty good pile of hail on my front sitting area. Crazy Oklahoma weather!”
Mike Keisel was loading hay when the squall line moved through. “Nothing like loading hay and getting hammered by heavy rain and hail,” Keisel said.
Severe weather began to develop in Oklahoma late Tuesday, spawning at least one twister. A tornado reportedly touched down for about 20 seconds Tuesday night in the town of Hobart, which is located approximately 120 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
The system moved eastward, leaving splintered homes and broken trees across Alabama and Mississippi before marching into Georgia and Florida on Thursday, rousing residents with early morning warnings as forecasters said the threat of dangerous weather would move up the south Atlantic seaboard.