Weather

SOUTHERN WISCONSIN — Today is the day forecasters have been warning about all week — and it is arriving fast. A regional severe weather and tornado outbreak is expected across southern Wisconsin and perhaps extreme eastern Iowa and northern Illinois this afternoon, with storms firing quickly in the 3 to 4 PM timeframe. High-resolution forecast…

OKLAHOMA — While the national spotlight is fixed on the tornado outbreak unfolding across southern Wisconsin today, Oklahoma is quietly setting up for one of the most significant hail events of the season — and it is happening this afternoon. 2 to 3 inch hail is looking more and more likely along a corridor stretching…

PLAINS AND MIDWEST, UNITED STATES — Before Tuesday’s tornado outbreak has even finished, the Storm Prediction Center is already looking ahead — and what they are seeing for Friday and Saturday is another potentially significant severe weather event across parts of the Plains and Midwest. The SPC has issued formal Day 4 and Day 5…

UNITED STATES — The scale of today’s tornado threat is historic. Over 45 million people are in the risk zone for tornadoes this afternoon and evening — one of the largest populations placed under a tornado threat in recent years. The tornado probability map for Tuesday April 14, 2026, updated at 3:14 AM ET and…

NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHERN INDIANA — Tuesday April 14, 2026 is not waiting until the afternoon to get active. Rain and storms are already building this morning across northern Illinois and northern Indiana, and the current radar at 6:45 AM ET shows a well-defined corridor of active precipitation pushing eastward across the region. Locally heavy…

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The National Weather Service in Chicago issued an updated tornado outlook at 8 AM Tuesday April 14, 2026 — and the language is unambiguous. The environment across far northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, and southern Wisconsin is described as extremely primed for supercells capable of strong tornadoes anytime from 3 PM through 10…

UNITED STATES — Tuesday April 14, 2026 is a dangerous day of severe weather across a massive stretch of the country. From Texas through the Midwest and all the way into the Northeast, a severe weather outbreak is underway today with giant hail, damaging winds, and a few strong tornadoes likely. The categorical outlook, updated…

DUBUQUE, IOWA — Tuesday April 14 just got significantly more dangerous. The Storm Prediction Center has upgraded the tornado threat for the corridor between Dubuque, Rockford, and Madison, and the new language being used is as serious as it gets in severe weather forecasting. Tornadoes may reach EF3 or greater strength in the strongest storms…

UNITED STATES — The weather pattern gripping the country over the next five days is one of the most striking and extreme contrasts meteorologists have seen in years. Two completely opposite weather regimes are locked in place simultaneously — one delivering up to 500% of normal rainfall and severe weather across the Great Lakes, and…

UNITED STATES — Today is not a single severe weather event. It is two simultaneous tornado outbreaks firing at opposite ends of the country at the same time — a bimodal severe weather outbreak that splits the nation’s attention and its danger across two completely separate corridors. EF2-plus tornadoes are the great threat across eastern…