Areas of Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorms for Friday

Heavy to excessive rainfall may produce areas of flooding Friday and Friday night from central Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are expected from central Texas to middle Tennessee and central Kentucky Friday afternoon into early Friday night. Large hail and damaging winds are the main threats. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Fri, May 2, 2025 at 12:08:26 am CDT

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Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect until 7 AM across southern two- thirds of Oklahoma and portions of western north Texas. Hail up to tennis ball size, damaging winds up to 70 mph and a tornado or two will be possible with any storms that develop.

Storms will begin to move into Oklahoma and north Texas from the west late this evening and move across the area overnight. Severe storms will be possible with hail, wind and even the potential for a tornado or two.

There is a very low tornado risk for parts of western, central, and southern Oklahoma late tonight and into Friday morning.

Severe storms possible early Friday morning then a dry trend through the weekend. Storms/wet trend returns early next week through much of the week.

Local Weather History For May 2nd...

To start the year 2018, no tornadoes were recorded in Oklahoma from
January 1 through April 30, the first time with no tornadoes during
this stretch since weather records began. A brief, weak tornado
occurred on May 1 near the Kansas border nroth of Buffalo, bringing
this record stretch to an end. On May 2, several tornadoes occured
from southwest Oklahoma, near Lone Wolf, into the southern part of
the OKC metro. The metro tornado affected northeast sides of Norman
with EF-1 damage. No injuries were reported with any of the
tornadoes.

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