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 ...
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Storm Track 3 Forecast: Temperature whiplash, fire weather concerns continue
With warm, windy, and dry conditions expected for the start of the workweek, Fire Weather Watches have been issued across the ...
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Monster storm across the US sparks threat of tornadoes and fire, killing at least five people
At least five people have been killed in a monster storm sweeping across much of the U.S. At least two people were killed in ...
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At least 16 people killed as massive storm sweeping the U.S. spawns tornadoes
The threat of violent tornadoes in parts of the U.S. proved deadly as well as destructive as whipping winds moved east into ...
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 3 as forecasters fear weekend tornado outbreak
A huge storm system crossing the U.S. threatens to unleash tornadoes Friday in the Mississippi Valley, blizzards in the northern Plains and dry, gusty conditions in Texas and Oklahoma that pose a high ...
Monster storm across the US sparks threat of tornadoes in US South; Texas dust storm claims 3 lives
The National Weather Service predicted extreme weather across a vast swath of the country that is home to more than 100 ...
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 ...
Storm across the US sparks threat of tornadoes and fire, killing at least 16
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The threat of violent tornadoes in parts of the U.S. proved deadly as well as destructive as whipping ...
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 ...