Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Southern Plains; Fire Weather Threat in the Southwest U.S.

Thunderstorms, some severe, may produce heavy to excessive rainfall and isolated flooding over portions of the Southern Plains today and Saturday. Dry conditions, combined with gusty winds and low relative humidities will continue to support an elevated to critical fire weather threat in the Desert Southwest into to early next week. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 4:26:30 pm CDT

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Severe storms will be possible late this afternoon into Saturday morning. Large hail and damaging winds are the primary concerns.

More heavy rainfall coming this weekend mainly Friday night and Saturday with the heaviest accumulations across southcentral through southwest Oklahoma and western north Texas. The additional rainfall over already saturated ground in some area could lead to flooding across much of our south where a Flood Watch will remain in place through Saturday. Expecting much lower additional accumulations on Sunday.

There will be areas of storms each day through into next week. It will not storm all day or affect all areas each day, but there will be at least scattered storms expected sometime each day.

Local Weather History For April 25th...

The first known official tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma came on
April 25, 1893. On that day, at least five strong or violent
tornadoes struck central Oklahoma. One twister moved through northern
Cleveland County, destroying 30 homes. This tornado was more than
one-mile wide at times.

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