Alva Review-Courier -

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — This year's weather on the Southern Plains has an odd twist: Oklahoma has yet to record its first tornado, the deepest into the year it's gone without one since 1962.

Although a drought has dried up moisture needed to fuel storms, state climatologist Gary McManus also attributes the streak to "dump luck." Twisters already have hit the Texas Panhandle and western Arkansas, mere miles away.

"Mother Nature doesn't care where we put the geopolitical lines between Arkansas and Oklahoma or Oklahoma and Texas ... it's something we humans put there ... we were very close to not se...