Author: Colton Hayes

CHICAGO, Illinois — A 2:00 PM Tuesday update has dramatically escalated the severe weather threat across the Upper Midwest — with a regional tornado outbreak now possible and EF3 and EF4 violent tornadoes explicitly on the table across a focused zone covering Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and eastern Iowa as three separate atmospheric boundaries converge simultaneously…

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas — A healthy and strengthening complex of rain and storms currently churning across Oklahoma is tracking northeast tonight and is expected to move into northwest Arkansas around midnight — bringing what could be a noisy and potentially strong round of overnight severe weather to the Fayetteville, Fort Smith, and surrounding northwest Arkansas communities…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The extraordinary and record-threatening April heat that has been baking the Washington D.C. region with temperatures running 20 to 25 degrees above average is entering its final days — with highs expected to remain well into the 80s through Saturday and potentially reaching the 90s on Wednesday and Thursday before a cold…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — The severe weather risk across central Oklahoma into northwest Texas has just been upgraded to a Slight Risk — Level 2 out of 5 as confidence increases in storm development along the dryline this afternoon — putting Oklahoma City, Wichita Falls, Enid, Altus, Abilene, Graham, Denison, and the broader Dallas corridor…

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — A tornado outbreak is possible today across a massive corridor stretching from Texas all the way to Wisconsin — as two separate and simultaneously dangerous severe weather setups are targeting the Iowa-Minnesota border zone and the Oklahoma City metro into northwest Texas during the critical afternoon and evening hours, with giant…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — A dangerous and rapidly evolving severe weather situation is developing right now across Texas and Oklahoma as a tightening and converging dryline advances eastward through the region — with scattered cumulus clouds already building along the boundary as atmospheric forcing arrives, signaling that supercell thunderstorms are on the verge of firing…

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A hard freeze is coming to Salt Lake City and northern and central Utah this weekend as a powerful winter-like storm blasts through the region Thursday evening — sending temperatures into a dramatic freefall that will drop valley floors below freezing on both Friday morning and Saturday morning, with Salt…

MASON CITY, Iowa — A potentially significant tornado event is developing right now across northern Iowa and southern Minnesota as the atmosphere over the region reaches extraordinary and alarming levels of tornado-producing capability — with storm rotation probability exceeding 90% in a focused corridor, Significant Tornado Parameter values spiking into the deep red across the…

MANKATO, Minnesota — Multiple tornado warnings are active right now across southern Minnesota and northern Iowa as a dangerous and rapidly evolving storm outbreak tears through the region Monday evening — with a confirmed tornado warning indicated in purple on radar located just southeast of Spencer, Iowa as of 8:00 PM CT Monday, April 13,…

CHICAGO, Illinois — A substantial and dangerous severe weather outbreak is locked in for Tuesday, April 14 across northeast Iowa, southern Wisconsin, and northern Illinois — as scattered rotating supercell thunderstorms carrying baseball-sized hail, damaging wind gusts, and isolated EF2+ tornadoes target a corridor stretching from Dubuque, Iowa through Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and into…