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Strong to Severe Thunderstorms from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley; Heavy Rain and Flooding in the Southern Plains

Severe thunderstorms are expected from central Texas to middle Tennessee and Kentucky this afternoon into tonight. Large hail and damaging winds are the main threats. Heavy to excessive rainfall may produce areas of flooding today and tonight from central Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Fri, May 2, 2025 at 11:44:25 pm CDT

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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