Tornadoes and severe weather watch thread

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Severe storms that spawned destructive tornadoes leave 8 dead across the Central US

Severe storms brought damaging tornadoes to parts of the central US Thursday and Friday, shredding buildings into piles of debris and killing at least eight people.

The severe weather threat that started Wednesday will largely wind down after Saturday.

A smattering of severe storms threatens central Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley, Memphis and other portions of western Tennessee, Alabama, and parts of the Great Lakes – including Cleveland and Pittsburgh — with large hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes Saturday.

A severe thunderstorm watch for a swath of cities across Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi is in effect until 3 p.m. ET. Tornadoes, quarter-sized hail and wind gusts up to 70 mph are possible.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tor ... 29743.html

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Destructive tornadoes hit Kansas with days of dangerous severe storms to come across the central US

A week of severe storm threats across the central US started with a bang Monday, with multiple tornadoes demolishing buildings in Kansas, heavy rain stranding vehicles on flooded streets in Wisconsin and baseball-sized hail battering parts of three states.

And Tuesday has the potential to be be just as dangerous.

Tens of millions of people from the Texas-Mexico border to the Great Lakes are at risk of severe storms Tuesday, including in Chicago, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Oklahoma City, where there’s a Level 3 of 5 threat for large to giant hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes.

Dangerous flooding is also a concern, especially where rivers are already running high in water-logged northern Michigan and northern Wisconsin.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mul ... 23123.html

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At least 10 injured, homes destroyed after tornadoes hit northern Oklahoma: What we know

Source: KOCO

At least 10 people were injured, and several homes and structures were destroyed as long-tracked tornadoes moved through northern Oklahoma on Thursday.

Authorities have not reported any deaths as of Friday morning. Below is what we know from the tornadoes that moved across Oklahoma on Thursday evening.

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Read more: https://www.koco.com/article/tornado-en ... o/71116783

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Red State Town Blindsided by Tornado Blames Trump Cuts for Blown Forecast
By Daniel Hampton
July 6, 2026

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(Raw Story) Emergency managers in central Kansas say a tornado that tore through their communities on April 13 caught them off guard for one reason: the forecast said clear skies, and they blame staffing cuts under President Donald Trump for gutting the data behind it, according to Politico.

"The issue is the forecast," said Thomas Winter, emergency manager for Franklin County. "There was a zero percent chance of thunderstorms — and that forecast comes from the storm prediction center out of Oklahoma."

Meteorologists point to reductions carried out by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, which thinned the ranks at National Weather Service offices that launch weather balloons twice daily. Those balloons feed the models used for severe-storm forecasts, and understaffed western offices have delayed or dropped the morning launches, creating data holes. Ahead of the April 13 twister, NOAA data showed no balloon launches upstream of eastern Kansas.

Alan Gerard, a former NOAA severe-storms lab director, said going from "no risk area defined" to "you have strong tornadoes" is highly unusual.

NOAA rejected the idea that its balloon operations have compromised forecasts, saying it has found no degradation. The agency noted the Storm Prediction Center flagged severe-weather potential as early as April 10, and that weak, short-lived tornadoes are notoriously hard to predict.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/gene ... 40&ei=47