ATLANTA, Georgia — After weeks locked in a hot and dry pattern that has baked Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and the broader Southeast, the first real signs of pattern change are finally showing up in the forecast — and the numbers are meaningful. Ensemble data valid through Wednesday April 29 is showing 2 to 3 inches…
SOUTH BEND, Indiana — The Tornado Warning across northern Indiana has just been expanded and now includes South Bend — putting 373,600 residents, 106 schools, and 9 hospitals directly inside an active radar-indicated tornado warning valid until 1:15 AM Eastern Time Saturday April 18. This is one of the largest population exposures of the entire…
LAWTON, Oklahoma — A Severe Thunderstorm Warning is active right now for Lawton, Altus, and Frederick, Oklahoma, valid until 12:15 AM Central Time Saturday April 18 — covering 151,791 residents, 83 schools, and 7 hospitals across southwestern Oklahoma as dangerous 60 mph wind gusts and hail slam through the region tonight. This warning covers a…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The massive storm system that produced tornado warnings across Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana overnight is not finished yet. A Slight Risk of severe weather — the second level on the five-tier severe weather scale — has been issued for Saturday April 18 covering a large area from the upper Ohio Valley through…
ELKHART, Indiana — A Tornado Warning is active right now for Elkhart, Mishawaka, and Osceola, Indiana, valid until 1:15 AM Eastern Time Saturday April 18 — and this is not a drill. Radar is indicating a tornado on the ground or imminent in the warning zone, and 191,604 residents across this corridor are in immediate…
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — After two days of tornado outbreaks, embedded QLCS tornadoes, and 70 mph winds tearing across the Midwest, the storm system responsible for all of it is pushing east — and by Sunday April 19, the trailing cold front will sweep down the East Coast, bringing a marginal severe weather risk to Florida,…
DENVER, Colorado — While Illinois and Indiana are dealing with tornadoes and Kansas faces severe storms, Colorado is waking up to a completely different weather story this weekend — April snow blanketing the Denver metro area and surrounding foothills with totals already ranging from 2.6 inches in Aurora up to 5.3 inches in the higher…
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…