Severe Weather Alert: High Risk of Tornadoes and Thunderstorms for Central Oklahoma and Southern Kansas

Takeaways:

• A high risk warning for severe weather, including long-track tornadoes, hurricane-force winds, and baseball-sized hail, has been issued for central Oklahoma and southern Kansas.

• Over 3.4 million people, 1,614 schools, and 159 hospitals in the region are at the most severe threat, with nearly 10 million people in total potentially affected.

• Schools and colleges, including the University of Oklahoma, have closed early, and state agencies have been advised to let workers leave early in anticipation of the storms.

• The last high risk issued by the Storm Prediction Center was on March 31, 2023, and the current risk is considered the worst in five years, with all necessary ingredients for a significant tornado outbreak present.

• The severe weather is expected to move east, posing overnight risks to other areas, and the entire week is forecasted to be stormy across the U.S., particularly in the eastern and southern regions.

References:

[1] Millions of people across Oklahoma, southern Kansas at risk of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Link

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