Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Severe weather eyes millions in Midwest as flooding swamps mid-Atlantic

Weather successful America: May 14, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

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Tornadoes, ample hail endanger millions successful Midwest arsenic multiday terrible upwind menace begins Wednesday

Tens of millions of radical from the Upper Midwest to the Ohio Valley are connected alert as a multiday terrible upwind menace begins Wednesday, with forecasters informing of storms susceptible of producing tornadoes, ample hail and damaging wind gusts.

The FOX Forecast Center said the strongest instability and tempest vigor connected Wednesday volition beryllium recovered from the Kansas-Nebraska borderline northward into the Dakotas opening precocious Wednesday afternoon. Large hail is expected to beryllium the superior threat, with a increasing hazard for tornadoes to make aboriginal Wednesday evening.

On Thursday, the severe weather menace volition displacement east. More than 16 cardinal radical successful cities similar Chicago and Naperville successful Illinois, Milwaukee and Madison successful Wisconsin and Grand Rapids successful Michigan person been placed successful a Level 3 retired of 5 threat connected Thursday.

This graphic provides an overview of a multiday terrible upwind menace that kicks disconnected Wednesday.

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Flash flooding swamps mid-Atlantic, Appalachians arsenic hunt underway for missing 12-year-old boy

A dire Flash Flood Emergency was issued successful occidental Maryland connected Tuesday arsenic a slow-moving but potent tempest strategy that slammed the Southeast with torrential rainfall and terrible weather inched its mode toward the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. 

Another Flash Flood Emergency was issued for Greene and Madison counties successful Virginia connected Tuesday evening, arsenic archetypal responders successful Albemarle County, Virginia, said they were inactive searching for a 12-year-old lad who was swept distant by floodwaters.

Texas vigor to surpass fury of each US deserts arsenic triple-digit temperatures scope historical levels

The scorching vigor descending upon the Lone Star State volition beryllium truthful extreme that thermometers are forecast to ascent higher than the sun-baked sands of each the U.S. deserts, with precocious temperatures perchance reaching adjacent to 115 degrees on the Rio Grande.

The FOX Forecast Center said large cities similar Austin and San Antonio tin expect record-breaking triple-digit temperatures done Sunday.

The hottest conditions volition apt highest connected Wednesday into Thursday, erstwhile all-time vigor records for the period of May could beryllium shattered. By the clip the heat wave ends, hundreds of regular records are apt to beryllium broken. 

The utmost vigor has triggered Heat Advisories and adjacent Extreme Heat Warnings.

A look astatine the imaginable record-high temperatures connected Wednesday.

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Watch this: Florida alligator with seat connected its caput comes knocking connected Fort Myers door

Knock, knock. Who's there? Oh, conscionable your friendly vicinity alligator. 

Residents successful a Florida vicinity got a astonishment astatine their doors Friday successful the signifier of an alligator with a tract seat stuck connected its head. 

Video shared by the Lee County Sheriff's Office shows the alligator with a seat connected its caput get connected a tiny beforehand structure of an flat successful Fort Myers. The adjacent changeable shows the alligator successful a antithetic doorway, this clip chair-free.

Alligator goes door-to-door successful Florida neighborhood

An alligator with a seat connected its caput determine to wage immoderate neighbors a sojourn by going from door-to-door. Wildlife officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and Lee County Sheriff's Office deputies helped wrangle the reptile distant from the homes. 

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