BLOOMINGTON, Illinois — A tornado emergency is unfolding across central Illinois right now. A violent QLCS squall line is tearing through the state producing multiple embedded tornadoes and wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph — and the storm is not weakening. Active tornado warnings in magenta are stacked across a corridor from Ottawa and…
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Indiana residents need to set a weather alert before going to bed tonight. A line of strong storms carrying wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph and lightning is forecast to sweep across the state in the early morning hours of Saturday April 18, with simulated radar showing the storm complex arriving…
DES MOINES, Iowa — The cap is breaking. Convective initiation is beginning right now across parts of Iowa and Minnesota along the cold front and in the open warm sector — and the environment already in place is more than capable of producing strong to intense tornadoes, very large hail, and damaging winds as discrete…
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Severe thunderstorm warnings are already active and tornado warnings are on the ground right now across eastern Iowa and into southwestern Wisconsin as a rapidly developing and dangerous storm cluster explodes along a confluence boundary this afternoon. The storms firing near Dubuque, Dyersville, Monticello, and Anamosa are growing fast — and any…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington D.C. is making history today, Saturday April 18, and not in a subtle way. Today marks the 12th day in 2026 with a high temperature of 80 degrees or higher in the nation’s capital — breaking a record that has stood since 1945 when the city reached that milestone 11 times…
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The severe weather outbreak that tore through Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin on Friday is now being assessed for damage and confirmed tornado reports — while the threat is far from over. Today, Saturday April 18, the same storm system has pushed southeast and a fresh tornado threat is active across Kansas…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — A dangerous severe thunderstorm complex is bearing down on Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky right now, and the leading edge could reach Clarksville, Nashville, and Bowling Green as early as 7 PM tonight. The first severe thunderstorm warning of the evening has already been issued for Stewart County, Tennessee — and the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Severe Drought has officially expanded across southern and eastern portions of the Washington D.C. region, and a Red Flag Warning is in effect right now across western Virginia and parts of Maryland — covering communities from Cumberland down through Winchester, Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Luray — as record heat, low humidity, and dry…
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The atmosphere across the Upper Midwest today is being described by forecasters with one word — wild. The combination of instability and wind shear building over Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois right now is not just impressive for April — it is impressive for any time of year. And if discrete storms manage…
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Two separate and dangerous storm zones are active today, Friday April 17, across the Central Plains and Upper Midwest — and both are capable of producing tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind gusts across a very large geographic footprint stretching from Kansas all the way through Iowa and Illinois. Forecasters are…