Author: Colton Hayes

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Long-range weather models are hinting at early season tropical development most likely in June 2026, with a potential system showing up in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico corridor in extended model guidance. At the same time, a dramatic pattern shift is forecast across the central United States by late…

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — A very severe thunderstorm slammed Daytona International Speedway at 7:07 PM Saturday May 9, 2026, producing quarter to ping pong ball size hail, 406 total lightning strikes and rotation indicating a brief tornado is possible within the storm. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Volusia County was active expiring at 7:45 PM…

BROOKHAVEN, Mississippi — The National Weather Service Jackson has confirmed a single long-track EF3 tornado traveled 65 miles across southern Mississippi on Wednesday May 6, 2026, with maximum winds of 140 mph, a maximum width of 683 yards and 13 injuries reported along the path. What appeared on radar as two separate tornadoes was actually…

BROOKHAVEN, Mississippi — Preliminary path data is now confirmed for all tornadoes that struck southern Mississippi on Wednesday May 6, 2026, revealing a long-track tornado family that included two EF3 tornadoes both staying on the ground for nearly an hour each. Remarkably, there were zero fatalities across the entire outbreak — a direct result of…

DALLAS, Texas — A large severe weather risk is in place for Sunday May 10, 2026 across Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, with Dallas and Shreveport sitting inside the Enhanced Risk zone — the highest category on this outlook. Damaging winds and large hail are the primary concerns across the risk area, with a tornado risk…

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — Three small supercells are riding the leading edge of a remnant front across north-central Florida as of 5:33 PM Saturday May 9, 2026, all showing broad rotation aloft and drifting slowly to the southeast. None are strong enough for warnings at this time but all three carry the potential to turn…

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The second half of May is shaping up to bring a significant increase in severe weather chances across the central and eastern United States as temperatures turn much warmer after May 15 and stay that way. A machine learning total severe probability forecast valid May 20, 2026 shows the pattern becoming…

TULSA, Oklahoma — Northern Oklahoma is producing a handful of high-based, visually dramatic supercells Friday afternoon that are generating spectacular lightning photography opportunities even as the overall severe threat remains limited. Strong deep-layer wind shear, steep lapse rates and mostly streamwise shear vectors are driving storms that look convective and explosive rather than smooth and…

CHICAGO, Illinois — The end of May is shaping up to bring a significant return of severe weather across the Plains and Midwest, with multiple long-range signals pointing toward warmer and more humid air surging northward into the central United States while stronger troughs eject out of the western United States — a classic recipe…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Scattered strong to severe storms are developing across Oklahoma and into north Texas this afternoon and evening along a southward-moving cold front. Damaging winds and large hail are the primary concerns with any storm that reaches severe limits, but a tornado or two cannot be entirely ruled out — particularly if…