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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Climate and Weather History
Basic climate data
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Where can I find basic, recent climate data for Oklahoma and north Texas?
Specific climate data
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I need specific, recent weather information. How can I get that?
Court cases
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I need weather information for a court case. How do I get it?
Major storm
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Where can I get information on a specific major storm?
Information sources
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What sources of climate information are available?
Lightning data
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How can I find out how many lightning storms affect various parts of the country?
Cycles in climate
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Does climate change in cycles?
Education (Learning about Weather)
Weather information
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Where can I find educational information on weather?
Summer camps
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Are there any weather-themed summer camps in the Oklahoma/north Texas area?
Homework
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Will you do my homework for me?
Employment in Meteorology (and education for employment)
Studying meteorology
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I want to study meteorology. What career opportunities are available to meteorologists, and what schools offer meteorology programs?
High school courses
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What courses should I take to prepare for a meteorology major in college?
Best college
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I want to study meteorology in college. Which college is best?
Volunteering and internships
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Can I volunteer or do an internship at your office?
NWS Job
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How do I get a job in the National Weather Service?
Forecasts
CWA
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What counties are in the NWS Norman forecast and warning area?
Forecast
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Can I get a forecast for...?
Long range forecast
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I'd like a forecast for more than a week in the future. Can I get that?
Abbrevs
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Some forecast discussions include unfamiliar abbreviations and terms. What do they mean?
Chance of precipitation
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What do the precipitation chances mean, and how are they determined?
Inquiries by E-mail and Usenet
General question
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I have a general question about the weather but I'm not sure whom to ask.
Outside the forecast area
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I live outside WFO Norman's area of responsibility. Can I still request information from your office?
Fast response
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I need my request answered fast. Can you get it to me by the end of the week?
No response
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I sent an e-mail requesting some information, and never got a reply. Why not?
Miscellaneous
Tours
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How do I arrange for a tour of your office?
NSSL
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Is your office the same as the National Severe Storms Laboratory?
SPC
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Is your office the same as the Storm Prediction Center?
Glossary
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I tried to look up a term in your weather glossary, but it wasn't listed. What does it mean?
Sunrise and sunset
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Where can I find sunrise/sunset information?
All Hazards Radio (also known as NOAA Weather Radio)
Radio programming
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How do I program my radio?
Counties to program
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Which counties should I program my radio to alarm for?
FIPS and SAME codes
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My new NOAA Weather Radio needs FIPS (SAME) codes programmed into it. What are they?
Alarms too often
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This stupid radio alarms for every warning issued for the whole state! Why is that?!
Special-needs radios
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Where can I find information on special needs NOAA weather radios?
Live NWR
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Do you have live NWR broadcasts on your site?
Photographs
Copyright
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Can I use the photos on your website for my own purposes?
Storm photos
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Where can I get pictures of tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, etc.?
Submissions
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I have a really cool photo of a weather event in your area. Do you want to post it on your site?
Severe Weather: Warnings, Reporting, Spotting and Chasing
Reporting
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I'd like to report a severe weather event. How do I do that?
Spotting
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How do I become a storm spotter?
Chasing
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I want to be a storm chaser! How do I get a job doing that?
Chasing tours
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Who offers storm chasing tours?
E-mailed warnings
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Can I have warnings e-mailed to me?
Pager warnings
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Can I receive a page when a warning is issued?
Daily storm reports
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Where can I find daily severe weather reports? Can they be e-mailed to me every day?
County maps
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Are county maps available to help identify which locations are in warnings?
Scanner frequencies
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Do you have a list of scanner frequencies that spotters use?
Supercell information
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Where can I find information on wall clouds, or other supercell features?
Storm Safety
Shelters
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Do you have information on storm shelters
Safety information
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Where can I find information on flood/hurricane/lightning/tornado safety
Pamphlets
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Can I get pamphlets on storm safety? ...for children?
Tornadoes
Myths
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What are some common tornado myths?
Additional tornado information
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Where can I find lots of tornado information?
F-scale
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Where is a chart of the F-scale" for tornadoes?
F5s in Oklahoma
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How many F5 tornadoes have occurred in Oklahoma?
F6 on May 3 1999
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Was the May 3, 1999 Moore tornado an F6?
318 mph
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Were the winds in the May 3, 1999 Moore tornado really 318 mph?
Tornado Alley
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Where is Tornado Alley?
Sound
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What does a tornado sound like?
Weather Information (General)
Radar loops
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Why don't the (WSR-88D) radar loops work?
Weather info
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Where on the Internet can I find weather information about...?
Lightning
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Where can I find lightning information?
Website Issues
Broken link
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A link doesn't work. Should I send e-mail about that?
Missing observation
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The current weather observation, given on the forecast page, shows "NULL" instead of the weather conditions. Why?
Missing observation at Norman
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Why is the Norman, Oklahoma weather observation shown as "NULL?"
Error
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There is an error on this site. Should I e-mail you to let you know?
Winter Weather
School closings
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Do you publish school closings during winter storms?
Wind Chill Index
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Does the "Wind Chill Index" correctly indicate how cold it feels?
Old WCI
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What is the difference between the old and the new Wind Chill Indices?
Freezing WCI
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Does water freeze if the Wind Chill Index is below freezing?
Plants and wind chill
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What is the effect of wind chill on plants and animals?
Wind chill now
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Where can I find the
current
wind chill temperature?
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Education
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Employment
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Forecasts
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Inquiries
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Miscellaneous
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NWR
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Photographs
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Severe weather
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Storm safety
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Tornadoes
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Weather info
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Website
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Winter weather
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