Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Significant severe weather targets 140M, after tornadoes rake Wisconsin

Weather successful America: May 16, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Friday, May 16, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

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Renewed terrible upwind outbreak threatens implicit 140 cardinal with beardown tornadoes, utmost gusts

Another important severe upwind outbreak is unfolding crossed the Midwest and Ohio Valley connected Friday, placing much than 143 cardinal radical nether alert.

The astir important interest for Friday lies successful the day and evening hours, wherever NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a Level 4 retired of 5 hazard of terrible weather, peculiarly for confederate Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.  This "bull’s-eye" portion faces a precocious imaginable for beardown tornadoes, perchance EF-2 oregon stronger. 

The FOX Forecast Center notes that during the evening hours, respective "bow echoes" volition determination done the bluish Tennessee Valley, resulting successful extended upwind harm successful swaths arsenic gusts transcend 75 mph.

This graphic shows the terrible upwind menace for May 16, 2025.

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Significant tornado harm reported successful Wisconsin arsenic terrible storms rotation done Minneapolis, Chicago

Communities across the Upper Midwest were cleaning up tempest harm Friday greeting aft terrible storms spawned damaging upwind gusts and adjacent a fewer tornadoes Thursday evening.

The cities of Juneau and Mayville, Wisconsin, astir 60 miles northeast of Milwaukee, received immoderate of the worst harm arsenic tornado-warned storms moved done astir 6 p.m. section time. Gusts astir Chicago reached astir 80 mph. 

Another bedewed play for Northeast and mid-Atlantic arsenic terrible storms clang extremity of week plans

A caller acold beforehand from the westbound volition bring yet different circular of rainfall and storms to the Northeast precocious Friday into Saturday. 

A Level 2 retired of 5 terrible thunderstorm hazard exists for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Saturday up on the East Coast from North Carolina's outer banks to eastbound Connecticut. 

Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City are covered successful the threat.

This graphic shows the terrible tempest menace for Saturday, May 17, 2025.

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