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Heavy Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Threats; Heat Risk Expands; Monitoring the Tropics

Flash flooding risks continue for portions of the Four Corners and Great Basin through today. Severe thunderstorms are outlooked from the eastern Great Lakes, southern New England into the mid-Atlantic through Tuesday. Heat risk increases and expands across the center of the nation and across the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic this week. Continue to closely monitor tropical development in the Gulf. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 9:46:43 am CDT

Afternoon high temperatures are expected to be in the 100F to 106F range with triple digit heat index values.
Elevated fire weather conditions are expected this afternoon across western Oklahoma due to hot temperatures, breezy winds, low humidity, and dry vegetation.
Dangerous heat will persist through the week. Elevated fire weather conditions are also expected across parts of OK Monday. It will be dry through the week with rain chances being very low.
It will be another prolonged period of triple-digit heat across the region through the week.

Local Weather History For August 31st...
August of 2005 was wetter than average across much of Oklahoma.
However, it was a record breaking month across western north Texas.
Nearly seven and one-half inches of rain was measured at Wichita
Falls, making it the second wettest August on record for Wichita
Falls.

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