INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — A prolonged cold stretch is arriving just as May begins, and farmers, gardeners, and anyone who has already put plants in the ground across Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and the broader Midwest need to pay close attention. Temperatures are forecast to run 5 to 7 degrees below normal from April 30 through May…
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Every new data update is making Monday, April 27 look more alarming for Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. A perfect atmospheric storm is assembling over the Mid-South and Ohio Valley — surface instability values surging past 3,000 to 6,000 joules per kilogram, low-level winds screaming at 40 to 50 knots, and a…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — The window for dangerous severe weather is opening tonight across Oklahoma and southeast Kansas, and confidence is rising fast. Isolated supercells are expected to develop between 6 and 9 PM CDT across a corridor stretching from Lawton and Oklahoma City north through Tulsa and up toward Wichita — and these storms…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Park your vehicles and stay weather-aware — Saturday, April 25 is shaping up as a significant hail day across the Southern Plains, with scattered dryline supercells capable of launching baseball to softball-sized hailstones across western Oklahoma, Texas Hill Country, and central Texas. The strongest storms today are not primarily a tornado…
WICHITA, Kansas — The atmosphere over Kansas and Oklahoma this afternoon is about as primed for supercell thunderstorms as it gets. Upper air maps are painting a near-perfect severe weather setup — a 50 to 60 knot jet stream aimed directly at the dryline, deep moisture surging across the entire warm sector with dewpoints hitting…
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — The drought gripping North Carolina and South Carolina just got worse, and the numbers behind a full recovery are staggering. Charlotte would need 12 to 14 inches of rain in a single month to end the drought — and the chance of that actually happening sits at just 0.8%. Every county…
WICHITA, Kansas — The tornado threat across central and eastern Kansas has been officially upgraded this afternoon, with a 10% significant tornado area now in place — meaning the tornadoes that do touch down tonight have a real chance of being EF2 or stronger. Supercells are expected to fire this evening as a low-level jet…
WICHITA, Kansas — Two distinct and dangerous storm zones are taking shape across the Central Plains today, with eastern Kansas, northeastern Oklahoma, and central/southern Oklahoma both carrying serious tornado potential as a cold front and dryline collide across the region. Wichita, Kansas sits at the heart of the higher-confidence threat zone, while Oklahoma City faces…
JACKSON, Mississippi — A powerful and unusually consistent long-range signal is pointing toward a significant severe weather event across the Deep South around Thursday, May 1 — and Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana are sitting directly in the bull’s-eye. Multiple atmospheric data sets are in strong agreement on a southern trough digging into the region for…
MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Confidence is rapidly growing that Monday, April 27 will bring a significant and dangerous severe weather outbreak across the Mid-South, with Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi locked in as the core bull’s-eye zone. Every major atmospheric data set is now converging on the same target area — a corridor where damaging winds, large…