OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Storms will form east of the dryline as well as along a lifting warm front this afternoon and evening. As these storms form into a line, they will march east across the state into the overnight hours.
A Tornado Watch has been issued for most of the area until Midnight tonight.
The Storm Prediction Center has put much of our area under an Enhanced Risk for severe weather due to the potential for damaging winds up to 80 mph, large hail up to baseball size, and a few tornadoes.
The tornado threat has crept up in recent forecasts, so we’ll need to watch out for that potential with any discrete supercells or even embedded within the line of storms.
Here is the approximate timing for the storms tonight:
The storms will form either on the dryline or the warm front, which are currently located here as of this afternoon:
To give you a better sense of the timing and storm evolution tonight, check out the below graphics. As you can see at the start of the event, the individual cells would favor a hail and tornado threat. Once they all connect into the line, then wind with the spinup tornado would then become the threats we’d be most concerned about.
It could be a late night of storms as you can see, so be sure to have multiple ways of receiving alerts…