A severe weather outbreak is likely across parts of the Plains and Midwest beginning Friday afternoon, where millions could see “monster hail” and tornadoes develop.
A broader severe weather threat is targeting more than 63 million people, spanning more than 1,500 miles from Texas to Michigan.
This comes on the heels of deadly severe storms that rumbled through the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma Thursday.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Friday that a mother and daughter were killed in Major County during Thursday night’s storms. The emergency management department in Fairview, Oklahoma, shared video on social media of a large possible tornado just west of the city late Thursday.
FOX Weather Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari tracked a spotter-confirmed tornado Thursday night outside of Quail, Texas.
On Friday, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center issued a Level 3 out of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms across parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.
Two primary areas of storms are expected to develop Friday.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the first round of storms is expected to develop during the mid-to-late afternoon as an area of low pressure close to the surface moves across Kansas and the Missouri Valley.
The atmosphere will be able to support supercell thunderstorms capable of generating hail larger than 3 inches in diameter, and tornadoes.
Strong tornadoes are possible from Kansas City to Wichita to Oklahoma City during the early evening hours Friday.
Overnight, as a cold front pushes farther east-southeast, damaging wind gusts, hail and tornadoes will be possible from Illinois southward through Oklahoma and northeastern Texas.
