Weather

OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS — A high probability hail outbreak is developing across Oklahoma and Texas this Saturday evening, April 25, 2026, with the hail outlook showing a 45 percent probability of significant 3-inch-or-larger hail across the core zone centered on Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita Falls, and Dallas — alongside threats of 60-plus mph damaging wind…

ILLINOIS — Monday, April 27, 2026 is shaping up as the highest ceiling severe weather event of the 2026 season so far for Illinois, with a Moderate Risk (Level 4 of 5) in place across a large portion of the state, a 60 percent or greater probability of severe weather across the core zone, and…

OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS — A Level 4 of 5 Moderate Risk of severe storms is in place across parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas today, Saturday, April 25, 2026, with a dangerous combination of destructive hail up to 4 inches in diameter, damaging winds up to 70 mph, and several tornadoes — a few potentially reaching…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Saturday is not a day to take lightly across eastern Oklahoma and north Texas. Giant hail measuring 3 to 4 inches or larger, damaging winds, and a few strong to potentially intense tornadoes are all on the table today as the most dangerous setup of the week so far targets a…

NORMAN, Oklahoma — The Storm Prediction Center has issued formal Key Messages for Monday, April 27 — a significant step that signals the agency’s confidence in a major severe weather event across the middle Mississippi and lower Ohio Valleys. Numerous severe storms are expected Monday across this region, and the area is already being monitored…

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Monday’s severe weather outlook has locked in at Level 3 of 5 across a massive corridor stretching from Iowa and Illinois south through Missouri, Tennessee, and into Arkansas and Mississippi. The dark red Level 3 core on Ryan Hall’s severe weather map covers an extraordinary lineup of major cities simultaneously: Chicago,…

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Monday, April 27 is arriving as advertised — and the forecast has not gotten any friendlier. The greatest tornado risk of the day is centered on a corridor covering eastern Missouri, northeast Arkansas, northern Mississippi, western Tennessee, western Kentucky, and southern Illinois and Indiana, with several significant EF2 or stronger tornadoes expected…

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — The Kentucky Derby on May 3 is shaping up to be one of the coldest in recent memory. A big late-season cold air mass is pushing into the East next weekend and through the first days of May, dropping morning lows into the 40s as far south as Georgia at daybreak. For…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Three consecutive days. Three separate high-risk zones. Three different regions of the country facing EF2 or stronger tornadoes and giant hail. The all-hazards severe weather outbreak that began Saturday across southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas is not a single event — it is a rolling, three-day catastrophe in slow motion that…

ADA, Oklahoma — The Storm Prediction Center has upgraded the tornado threat across south central and southeast Oklahoma, now explicitly indicating that tornadoes reaching EF3 strength are possible in a focused zone covering Ada, Atoka, Sulphur, Tishomingo, Madill, Colbert, Durant, Hugo, Antlers, and across the Red River into Paris, Texas. Rotating supercells are expected to…