TULSA, Oklahoma — If you are anywhere in eastern Oklahoma right now, the next three hours are the most dangerous of the day. The peak severe weather window runs from 5 to 8 PM this evening, with powerful supercells producing strong tornadoes, damaging winds, and hail up to 4 inches in diameter before those same…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Two separate tornado-warned storms are active on radar at 5:03 PM Saturday afternoon, and the situation is developing rapidly across south-central Oklahoma and north Texas. The KTLX Oklahoma City radar shows active severe weather warnings overlapping two distinct storm clusters — one near Wichita Falls, Texas and one near Ada and…
ADA, Oklahoma — Southeastern Oklahoma is locked in the crosshairs of one of the most focused tornado setups of the season today, with meteorologists warning that a couple of EF-3 or stronger tornadoes are possible where storms initiate between the outflow boundary and the 60-degree dewpoint contour and then latch onto that boundary for sustained,…
ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Monday night brings the severe weather parade directly into eastern Iowa and Missouri with a Highly Likely severe storm designation now covering Davenport, St. Louis, Cedar Rapids, and Dubuque. The red Highly Likely zone on the Central Plains Monday outlook represents the highest confidence tier on the map, where very large…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Two separate tornado-warned storms are active on radar at 5:03 PM Saturday afternoon, and the situation is developing rapidly across south-central Oklahoma and north Texas. The KTLX Oklahoma City radar shows active severe weather warnings overlapping two distinct storm clusters — one near Wichita Falls, Texas and one near Ada and…
CHICAGO, Illinois — NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has issued a formal Hazardous Temperature outlook for the period May 2 through 8, placing Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and surrounding Great Lakes states under a Moderate Risk of Much Below Normal Temperatures. The most dangerous cold arrives May 2 through 3 when temperatures across the core…
DES MOINES, Iowa — The frost season is not over for a large portion of the country — it is just getting reorganized. A frost risk outlook running through mid-May shows three distinct danger windows rolling across the Northeast, Great Lakes, Midwest, and Northern Plains in sequence, with the coldest and most persistent risk concentrated…
TULSA, Oklahoma — Saturday is shaping up as a significant severe weather day across Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and parts of Texas, with the main story being very large to potentially giant hail. Intense supercells are expected to develop by late afternoon across Oklahoma and Kansas, capable of producing hailstones up to 3 inches in diameter,…
DALLAS, Texas — The Storm Prediction Center has upgraded Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma to an Enhanced Risk (Level 3 of 5) for today, Friday April 24, with the threat centered on supercells capable of producing very large hail measuring 2 inches or larger. Those same supercells will also pose a tornado threat before storms…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Good news for anyone with Saturday morning plans across the D.C. metro, Maryland, and Virginia: the bulk of Saturday’s rain is not arriving until late afternoon at the earliest, and most of it falls between 4 PM Saturday and 4 AM Sunday. The morning and early afternoon will be cloudy and cool…