An exceptionally high risk for damaging winds in parts of Oklahoma and Texas into Sunday night highlights the start of a new week of severe thunderstorm threats extending from New Mexico to Pennsylvania.
Another active week of severe weather in the central and eastern U.S. will begin with a risk of 100-mph thunderstorm winds in the southern Plains on Sunday.
The extreme risk for severe weather, which has only been issued by AccuWeather six times since the spring of 2023, highlights the exceptional risk posed to life and property in the region to end the weekend. Additional rounds of destructive storms are expected to occur in the same area and elsewhere during the forthcoming week.
An extreme risk for severe weather into Sunday night
Following many active days of severe weather since last week, Mother Nature was not ready to relent on Sunday, with over 110 million people from the Lone Star state to near the nation’s capital at risk for damaging storms…