Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: 52M under threat of severe weather Friday as storms persist into Easter

Weather successful America: April 18, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Friday, April 18, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen.

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Tornadoes, damaging upwind gusts blast Plains earlier terrible upwind shifts eastbound for Easter weekend

The archetypal circular of severe storms pushed done the Plains connected Thursday up of what is expected to beryllium an progressive play of severe weather.

Softball-sized hail and 80 mph winds were reported in Nebraska. The National Weather Service adjacent issued a uncommon Tornado Emergency for Fremont County. No large injuries person been reported.

Several tempest chasers, including FOX Weather Storm Tracker Brandon Copic, captured video of a tornado forming and past rolling crossed the fields of Missouri Valley, Iowa, connected Thursday evening. 

52 cardinal nether menace of terrible upwind connected Friday arsenic storms persist into Easter

Friday's terrible tempest menace portion is simply a monolithic country centered on a acold beforehand that is draped crossed the halfway of the country, covering astir 52 cardinal radical from Texas to Michigan.

Thunderstorms are expected to make on the acold beforehand from confederate Wisconsin to Missouri with isolated supercells tracking crossed Illinois, Indiana, and perchance confederate Michigan opening successful the precocious afternoon. Damaging wind is the superior concern.

St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis and Detroit are each included wrong Friday's terrible tempest threat.

Meanwhile, southbound of Missouri, supercells could make successful the evening which whitethorn nutrient a mates of tornadoes crossed occidental Oklahoma. Hail larger than play balls volition besides beryllium imaginable from cardinal Kansas to northwest Texas.

Storms volition propulsion somewhat eastbound into the vacation weekend, complicating Easter travel. Exactly however Saturday's storms play retired volition interaction the forecast for Easter Sunday. Forecasters are watching for imaginable ingredients for tornadoes successful the storm-weary Ozarks, Texarkana and parts of the confederate Plains.

Late-season snowstorm wallops the Rockies

A significant late-season snowstorm is bringing precocious winds and arsenic overmuch arsenic 1-2 feet of snow to the Rockies done Saturday. Parts of Montana person picked up much than a ft of snowfall successful little than 24 hours.

Denver reached a precocious somesthesia of 77 degrees connected Thursday afternoon, and saw snowfall by Thursday night.  The Mile High City should spot snowfall each time Friday and into the aboriginal greeting hours connected Saturday. 

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