OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Friday’s forecast for Oklahoma sounds almost contradictory: mostly sunny skies with a slight chance of strong tornadoes. That is not a mistake — it is exactly what forecasters are dealing with, and understanding why makes this one of the more unusual and dangerous setups of the week. The atmosphere over Oklahoma…
WICHITA, Kansas — This is not a one-day severe weather event. A five-day severe weather marathon is now underway across the Heartland and Deep South, running from Thursday through Monday and hitting a different region each day. Wichita opens the week with a TOR:CON 5 tornado probability rating today. Little Rock, Shreveport, and Jackson absorb…
ST. LOUIS, Missouri — The severe weather is not done. After a punishing weekend across Kansas and Oklahoma, the storm parade rolls east on Monday, April 27 — and now Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas are in the crosshairs. A 30% severe weather corridor is centered directly over St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri, with multiple supercells…
WICHITA, Kansas — The tornado threat across central Kansas down through Oklahoma City is becoming more defined by the hour, and the window of maximum danger opens this afternoon between 4 and 6 PM. Supercells are expected to erupt along a cold front and dryline running north to south, moving into an intensifying low-level jet…
WICHITA, Kansas — A severe weather outbreak is expected across the Central Plains this Sunday, April 26, and Wichita, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City are sitting inside the highest-risk red zone on the outlook map. A potent trough and a highly primed atmosphere are in place across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri — capable of producing tornadoes,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The drought gripping the nation’s capital and surrounding region just got worse — again. The entire Beltway area and western portions of Virginia and Maryland have been upgraded to Severe Drought in the latest weekly report, one full category worse than the Moderate Drought that covered the same area just seven days…
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — A prolonged cold stretch is arriving just as May begins, and farmers, gardeners, and anyone who has already put plants in the ground across Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and the broader Midwest need to pay close attention. Temperatures are forecast to run 5 to 7 degrees below normal from April 30 through May…
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Every new data update is making Monday, April 27 look more alarming for Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. A perfect atmospheric storm is assembling over the Mid-South and Ohio Valley — surface instability values surging past 3,000 to 6,000 joules per kilogram, low-level winds screaming at 40 to 50 knots, and a…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — The window for dangerous severe weather is opening tonight across Oklahoma and southeast Kansas, and confidence is rising fast. Isolated supercells are expected to develop between 6 and 9 PM CDT across a corridor stretching from Lawton and Oklahoma City north through Tulsa and up toward Wichita — and these storms…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Park your vehicles and stay weather-aware — Saturday, April 25 is shaping up as a significant hail day across the Southern Plains, with scattered dryline supercells capable of launching baseball to softball-sized hailstones across western Oklahoma, Texas Hill Country, and central Texas. The strongest storms today are not primarily a tornado…