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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms, Critical Fire Weather, and HeatRisk for Monday

Isolated severe thunderstorms with locally damaging wind gusts and hail are possible Monday across parts of the Southeast U.S. Elevated to critical fire weather including gusty winds and low relative humidity is forecast Monday over much of the northern Great Plains. Above normal temperatures in the Southeast and Southwest U.S. will bring moderate to isolated major HeatRisk Monday. Read More >

 Today's Weather Trivia

Today's Date is Sunday May 10, 2026...\n ON... May 10, 1905 A deadly tornado struck the town of Snyder OK killing 87 persons. The tornado leveled 100 homes in Snyder, and destroyed many others. The large and violent tornado killed a total of 97 persons along its 40 mile path across southwestern Oklahoma. The roar of the tornado could reportedly be heard up to twelve miles away. IN 1942...A tornado skipped east northeast from 6 miles north of Sublette to northeast of Dodge City. What was probably a small tornado destroyed barns and damaged homes on at least eight farms. The two mile long section of the track at the northwest edge of Dodge City was the most damaging. The north wing of a building at Saint Mary's of the Plains Academy, 2 miles northeast of Dodge City, was destroyed, and several other buildings were unroofed. Damage was $80,000.

 

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