Weather News

CHICAGO, Illinois — The severe weather machine that spent the weekend tearing through Oklahoma and Kansas is not finished. It is reorganizing, reloading, and pointing directly at the Midwest and Mid-South for Monday, April 27 — and the data is now serious enough that forecasters are explicitly flagging a higher-end severe weather and tornado outbreak…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — The sounding data coming out of Oklahoma for Sunday is generating the kind of numbers that make experienced meteorologists stop and stare. A Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) tornado setup is taking shape across Oklahoma for Sunday afternoon and evening — the highest and most serious tornado classification that forecasters issue. With…

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Everything that defined April’s weather pattern is about to flip on its head when May arrives. The region that spent April drowning in storms — the Midwest and Great Lakes — is about to get shoved into a late-season frost and freeze threat. Meanwhile, the South and Southeast, which spent all of…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — The hail threat for Saturday, April 25 just got upgraded — and the numbers are sobering. Forecasters are now comfortable calling for hail up to softball size — 4 inches in diameter — with the strongest supercells forming east of I-35 in eastern Oklahoma. The white softball zone on the maximum…

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…