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…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Saturday’s severe weather setup across Oklahoma and north Texas is coming into sharper focus, and the picture has two very different sides to it. Very large hail is essentially locked in — forecasters describe it as a 100% certainty with today’s supercells. The tornado threat, however, faces several potential fail modes…
CENTRAL UNITED STATES — Monday, April 27, 2026 is carrying the hallmarks of a classic tornado outbreak, with the latest severe probability forecast showing a maximum severe weather probability of 62.1 percent concentrated across a corridor centered on Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi — one of the highest probability signals possible at the four-day forecast…
ENID, OKLAHOMA — The National Weather Service in Norman has issued a Tornado Emergency for Enid, Breckinridge, and Fairmont, Oklahoma, valid until 8:45 PM CDT on Thursday, April 23, 2026. This is a life-threatening situation and anyone in the affected area must seek shelter immediately. This Is a Life-Threatening Emergency A Tornado Emergency is the…
CENTRAL UNITED STATES — Monday, April 27, 2026 brings a significant severe weather risk across a wide corridor of the central United States, with strong tornadoes and widespread damaging winds both considered likely across portions of Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, and Tennessee, and possible across a broader surrounding region. Severe Weather Likely Across the Core Zone…