Rinse and repeat: yet another wave of dangerous storms expected Saturday
One active pattern after another sweeping across the U.S. this season will just keep on going as we head into the start of the Memorial Day weekend. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued a moderate risk, a level 4 out of 5, for much of Oklahoma and…
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Baseball size hail and 80+ mph winds likely on the southern Plains Thursday
An unusually intense mid-June severe weather outbreak looms for the southern Plains on Thursday. Storms will sweep across much of Oklahoma through Thursday evening before pushing into Texas and heading toward the Mississippi River after dark. Widespread…
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2023’s First Moderate Severe Storm Risk Targets Oklahoma With 75+ MPH Winds
This year’s first big threat for severe weather will target Oklahoma this weekend as forecasters expect a dangerous squall line to sweep across much of the state on Sunday. A robust low-pressure system will develop over the central Plains this…
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Dangerous Heat, 110°F+ High Temperatures On The Way For Southern Plains
There’s a hot summer day and a dang hot summer day. A spell of extreme heat on the southern Plains is set to get worse over the next couple of days as high temperature crank well above the 100-degree mark for much of the region. Highs will easily…
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Oklahoma Is Extremely Lucky That Monday’s Severe Weather Didn’t Live Up To Its Potential
The parameters existed on Monday for an intense tornado outbreak on the southern Plains had thunderstorms managed to develop in the warm sector. That didn’t happen. Even though there was plenty of severe weather from western Texas to southwestern…
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Here’s Why the Atmosphere Is Primed for a High-End Tornado Outbreak on the Plains
A rare high risk for severe weather is in effect Monday for a large chunk of Texas and Oklahoma, now including the Oklahoma City metro area, ahead of what could be a high-end severe weather event for the region. It’s been a long time since…
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A Rare ‘High Risk’ Tornado Outbreak and Flash Flooding Are Likely in Texas and Okla. Monday
Monday could be a high-end severe weather day on the southern Plains, with a threat of severe weather we only see once every couple of years. Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms are possible, beginning in the morning and likely continuing after…
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The 1999 Okla. Tornado Sticks With Us Because It Was Our First Immersive Weather Disaster
Twenty years ago today, a mile-wide tornado touched down in central Oklahoma and forever changed the way Americans viewed severe weather. The F5 tornado was so strong and so destructive that it’s served as a benchmark for all tornadoes since.…
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