WEATHER

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Thursday is just the beginning. A multi-day severe weather sequence is taking shape across the southern United States that will keep Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and the broader mid-South on alert from Thursday, April 23 through Monday, April 27, 2026. Each day brings a distinct risk zone, a shifting…

NASHVILLE, TN — For the first time in a long time, Dixie Alley and the Ohio Valley are staring down a legitimate severe weather day — and the outlook for Monday, April 27, 2026 is drawing serious attention from forecasters who have watched this region stay relatively quiet while the Midwest and Plains absorbed outbreak…

LITTLE ROCK, AR — Friday, April 24, 2026 brings a scattered but real severe weather threat to eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, northeast of Dallas along the I-30 corridor, and the Missouri Ozarks, as a low-pressure system sitting over southeast Colorado pushes a cold front southward while warm, humid air flooding northward ahead of it loads the…

CHICAGO, IL — A striking heatmap of every Storm Prediction Center Day 1 Outlook carrying at least a Slight Risk of severe weather between January 8 and April 18, 2026 has been released — and the picture it paints of where severe weather has hammered the United States hardest so far this year is both…

KANSAS CITY, MO — The severe weather setup taking shape for Thursday, April 23, 2026 is coming into clearer focus, and the latest model guidance is pointing toward a two-corridor threat that puts Oklahoma City and Wichita inside the highest-risk zone while simultaneously expanding the threat northward into eastern Minnesota, west-central Wisconsin, and potentially northwest…

HARRISBURG, PA — The brief summer preview that Pennsylvania has been enjoying is over. A cold front is pushing through the state Sunday, April 19, 2026, dragging temperatures from unseasonably warm back to genuinely cold — and the story does not end there. By Monday night into Tuesday morning, a hard freeze is expected to…

MADISON, WI — The numbers coming out of Wisconsin this week are difficult to process — not because they are hard to read, but because they represent something this state has almost never experienced in recorded history. In the span of a single week, 23 tornadoes touched down across Wisconsin, matching the state’s entire average…

LITTLE ROCK, AR — After one of the slowest severe weather stretches in recent memory across Arkansas and the broader southern United States, the atmosphere is finally showing signs of life — and the data building for this weekend into early next week is turning forecasters’ attention back toward a region that has been largely…

CHICAGO, IL — The numbers are in, and they confirm what residents across Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and the broader Upper Midwest experienced firsthand on Friday, April 17, 2026: a significant and well-verified severe weather outbreak that delivered hundreds of damaging wind and large hail reports across a corridor stretching from the southern Plains northward through…

NEWLAND, NC — A Wind Advisory is in effect for Avery County, North Carolina until 2:00 PM EDT on Sunday, April 19, 2026, as powerful northwest winds sweep through the Blue Ridge Mountains corridor bringing gusts capable of downing tree limbs, blowing over unsecured objects, and causing isolated power outages across the county. The advisory…