Severe Weather Outbreak Could Spawn Tornadoes In Plains, Midwest Through Monday
- Severe weather outbreak expected from Texas to the upper Midwest and Mississippi Valley with tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds through Monday.
Severe weather will continue for the next few days and could become an outbreak by Sunday and Monday with tornadoes, hail and damaging winds from the South and Plains to parts of the upper Midwest and Mississippi Valley.
Here is our latest forecast for each day of this latest siege of severe weather.
Friday
As the cold front shifts east, the most likely area for storms today is around the Texarkana area, including Tyler, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana. A few tornadoes and very large hail are possible in this area.
More broadly, scattered severe storms are possible from northeast Texas and southeastern Oklahoma to Mississippi. Damaging wind gusts and large hail are the main threats, but several tornadoes are also possible. Storms will develop in the afternoon across the wider area, but could wait until mid-evening in the “likely” area on noted on the map below…