LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — A formal Tornado Outlook has been issued for Arkansas valid through Wednesday, May 6 at 7:00 AM CDT, placing a large portion of the state inside a 15 to 29 percent tornado probability zone during the late afternoon and evening hours of Tuesday, May 5. A couple of EF2 or stronger…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After nine consecutive days of below-average temperatures, Washington D.C. is getting one brief window of warmth this week before the cold returns just as quickly as it left. Temperatures today are running close to the seasonal average for the first time in over a week, with Tuesday expected to surge into the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three entirely separate and simultaneous weather threats are unfolding across the United States on Sunday, May 3, 2026, affecting communities from the Gulf Coast to the Northern Plains. Isolated severe storms are firing across the Mississippi Valley this evening, thunderstorm clusters are pushing flash flooding risks across the Florida peninsula, and an…
JACKSON, Mississippi — A tornado probability forecast initialized Sunday morning, May 3, 2026 places Mississippi and Louisiana inside an elevated to medium tornado threat zone for Wednesday, May 6, with the highest probability values reaching the green shading band representing 40 to 50 percent tornado likelihood across a concentrated core centered over the two states….
JACKSON, Mississippi — A severe weather outlook covering a wide swath of the Gulf South has been issued for Wednesday, May 6, 2026, placing Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama under a possible severe weather zone that stretches from Houston northeast through Shreveport, Monroe, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Tupelo and Birmingham. The outlook was updated May 3 at…
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Another cold night is settling across North Carolina and South Carolina with overnight lows dropping into the upper 30s to upper 40s across the region. While not as sharp as the previous morning, temperatures remain well below typical early May norms with southwest winds at 4 mph keeping skies partly cloudy…
BELLFLOWER, Missouri — A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was active Saturday night, May 3, 2026 at 9:43 PM for Lincoln, Montgomery and Warren Counties in Missouri as a dangerous hailstorm exploded over Bellflower and pushed toward the broader St. Louis region. The warning carried threats of 60 mph wind gusts and 1.00 inch quarter-size hail, with…
DES MOINES, Iowa — A Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms has been issued for a broad corridor covering Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana for Monday, May 4 through Tuesday, May 5, 2026, with the darker shading on the outlook map indicating where organized storm activity and isolated severe weather are most likely. A much larger…
PORTAGE DES SIOUX, Missouri — A shocking radar signature emerged over Portage Des Sioux, Missouri on Sunday night, May 4, 2026, when a storm produced a radar reflectivity reading of 80 decibels, an intensity so extreme it stops meteorologists mid-sentence. On a random early May Sunday night, with no major outbreak expected, a cell over…
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Seven days of rain across North Carolina and South Carolina ending Saturday, May 2, 2026 produced totals that looked impressive on paper in some areas but delivered almost nothing where it mattered most. The central Piedmont, already deep in drought, received as little as 0.22 to 0.38 inches over the entire…