Breaking down the Storm Prediction Center’s severe storm risk categories
With a First Alert Weather Day for Saturday, March 15, 2025, and a rare high risk issued by the NOAA/National Weather Service ...
What the Storm Prediction Center's Thunderstorm Outlook Means
Severe weather is defined as a thunderstorm that produces one of the following: measured wind gusts to at least 58 mph, ...
Big March Storm Fans Wildfires and Kills Three as Forecasters Fear Weekend Tornados
A huge storm system crossing the U.S. threatens to unleash tornadoes Friday in the Mississippi Valley, blizzards in the ...
An explanation of storm categories
The SPC uses categories to convey the strength of the severe weather threat. TSTM, which is shaded in light green, is technically not a severe weather category, but is just a general thunderstorm ...
What Severe Thunderstorm Outlooks Mean For The Tornado, Wind Damage And Large Hail Threat Level
Severe thunderstorm outlooks issued by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center can show a threat level from 1 to 5. They are used to ...
A strengthening storm is whacking Plains with hurricane-force winds and dust ahead of a likely tornado outbreak in the South
A cross-country storm is strengthening as it moves over the central United States Friday and pounding the region with ...
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Severe storm potential still on the table for northern Illinois this evening
In terms of severe weather potential, there hasn’t been much change overnight. In their latest round of severe outlooks, the ...
Strong-to-severe storms, potent winds in Chicago forecast Friday
New models from the Storm Prediction Center indicate a possibility of strong-to-severe thunderstorms and dangerous wind gusts later this week.