🚨🚨 Significant Severe Weather Risk OK/TX Today

A powerful storm system is taking aim on the Southern Plains.

This is probably one of the most impressive wind shear environments I have ever seen on the Southern Great Plains — that’s actually not an exaggeration. There are only a couple of days I can think of that rival it, and I suspect this day will be a lot like those.

A broken band of storms should form 3-4 p.m. today in the Texas Panhandle and quickly grow into a line. Along that line, damaging wind gusts (perhaps widespread reports of 80 mph or more) along with a few tornadoes will be a threat. But…there are some caveats.

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Very fast storm motions within a linear complex is going to make tonight an absolute terror to warn on. There is a chance that poor thermodynamics save our bacon, making it hard to mix down extremely damaging winds or spin up tornadoes. QLCS spin ups can happen all in one radar scan, meaning tornado warnings may come after a tornado has already formed and lifted. That’s the challenging nature …