Extremely Critical Fire Weather in New Mexico; Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Risk in Central U.S.

High winds and very dry conditions will bring extremely critical fire weather over a large part of New Mexico today. Red Flag and High Wind Warnings have been issued. Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms may produce large to very large hail and localized damaging winds late this afternoon into evening from the eastern Central Plains to the Upper Midwest. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 7:22:29 pm CDT

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A chance exists for strong to severe storms this weekend across the ArkLaTex. Timing and severe extent remains uncertain at this time, and will become clearer later this week.

Heavy rainfall threat will exist Saturday, primarily across the northwest zones where heavy rainfall may result in localized flash flooding.

Another warm day is on the way to the Four State Region with strong southerly winds, temperature minimums in the mid-to-upper 60s and maximums in the upper 80s, well above average for this time of the year.

Here is the daily climatology from select sites around the Four State region.

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Location	Time (CDT)	Weather	Vsby. (SM)	Temp. (ºF)	Dewpt. (ºF)	Hum. (%)	Wind (mph)	Wind Chill / Heat Index (ºF)	Pres. (in)
De Queen AR	Old	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	-	N/A
El Dorado AR	18:53	Clear	10	81	61	50	S 12	-	29.87
Henderson TX	18:55	Clear	10	83	58	42	S 9	-	29.87
Idabel OK	18:55	Clear	10	80	60	50	S 13G20	-	29.81
Longview TX	18:53	Clear	10	82	60	47	S 14	-	29.83
Lufkin TX	18:53	Clear	10	78	63	59	SSE 9	-	29.91
Monroe LA	18:53	Clear	10	82	61	48	S 13G25	-	29.91
Mount Pleasant TX	18:55	Clear	10	80	62	54	S 10	-	29.82
Nacogdoches TX	Old	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	-	N/A
Natchitoches LA	18:55	Clear	10	79	61	53	S 12G18	-	29.93
Shreveport LA (Regional Airport)	18:56	Mostly Cloudy	10	82	60	48	S 17G29	-	29.87
Shreveport LA (Downtown Airport)	18:53	Clear	10	82	61	48	S 15G23	-	29.87
Texarkana AR	18:53	Clear	10	83	61	47	S 10G21	-	29.82
Tyler TX	18:53	Clear	10	82	62	50	S 12G22	-	29.82


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Extremely Critical Fire Weather in New Mexico; Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Risk in Central U.S.

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