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Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Yahoo
Oklahoma Highway Patrol increases Stillwater patrol with Calf Fry in town
STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) is reminding those attending the Calf Fry in Stillwater to be responsible and not get behind the wheel while under the influence; Troopers are patrolling the area. The annual country music festival, also known as Calf Fry, kicked things off in Stillwater on Thursday, May 1, and continues into the weekend, prompting OHP Troopers to keep an extra eye out in the area for impaired drivers. 33rd Calf Fry event kicks off in Stillwater Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol puts lives at risk — and can lead to arrest, serious injury, or worse. Plan ahead. Use a designated driver, rideshare, or another safe way to get home. Oklahoma Highway Patrol on Facebook OHP says that for those who are under the age of 21, the legal limit is 0.02% Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC), which means any measurable amount of alcohol could result in a DUI. Troopers are not patrolling to ruin the fun, but to prevent serious accidents from happening. 'Make smart choices and help keep Calf Fry safe for everyone,' says OHP. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
NOAA researcher builds device to capture hail size, speed as it falls
NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – During severe weather season, we always see hail in the form it ends up in after it hits the ground. However, one federal weather researcher in Oklahoma is changing that with his own invention he built from scratch. 'There is nothing quite like the sound of being in a vehicle getting pelted with six inch plus diameter hail,' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather research scientist Sean Waugh said. LOCAL NEWS: KFOR's Emily Sutton educates students at 4Warn Storm School Most people try to avoid damage by keeping their vehicle out of hail. 'You feel it, more than you hear it,' he said. 'It's like a soul reverberating type feel. The truck physically vibrates with every stone that hits it.' However, Waugh loves being out in the elements. He built the contraption from scratch that they put on top of one of their weather trucks that is entirely designed to be out in hail. Waugh told KFOR that hail is poorly understood because we only see it after it cracks, breaks completely or melts. So, he put together a lot of wiring, protected by a bullet resistant lens with lights and two cameras inside. Those two cameras detect hail size and speed as it's falling. 'We want to know what real hail looks like,' Waugh said. 'I want to know how fast it's going, that affects the damage that it does to your roof.' The LED lights inside are 30 percent brighter than the sun to capture video in pitch dark. You actually need eclipse glasses to look at it when directly behind it. 'If you see me in the field with this, you should probably not be there because that is not going to be a fun place to be,' Waugh said. To originally test it, he used OU Athletics. Both a baseball and softball pitcher took part in it. 'It was an amazing experience to not only test the camera but to see their motion as well,' Waugh said. OU Athletics made a video showing the camera's tracking their pitches speed and motion. It also tracked the softball pitcher's arm rotation speed when letting go of the ball. 'Her arm is moving at nearly 2200 degrees a second, which is the equivalent of a ceiling fan rotating at full speed,' Waugh said. LOCAL NEWS: 33rd Calf Fry event kicks off in Stillwater All of it, along with what radar sees, is designed to help get better detection, forecasting and warnings, which is something that helps all of us. 'All of this improves our ability to protect life and property, which is why we're out here doing this research,' he said. Waugh said they've been out a lot recently and plan to go out more in the coming weeks as severe weather season ramps up. The truck has been 'operational' for about a year now. All of the information obtained by the cameras go directly to a computer in the back seat. Another interesting fact about it is that everything on the truck is removable. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
