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Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Sun, May 18, 2025 at 3:12:32 pm CDT

Severe weather is likely on Sunday east of an advancing dryline, particularly across northern Oklahoma. While the overall coverage of storms is uncertain/may remain limited, any thunderstorm will be capable of producing large hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes.
Severe weather concern will continue into Monday, with continued risk for large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.

Local Weather History For May 18th...
On this date in 2017, it was a busy severe weather day across
Oklahoma and western north Texas. Along with widespread storms
producing damaging wind and hail, there were also several weak
tornadoes across western and eastern parts of Oklahoma. A significant
storm across southwest parts of Oklahoma hit a mesonet observation
site near Walters, yielding a 104 mph wind gust.

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