Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Significant tornado threat Monday after weekend storms ravage heartland

Weather successful America: May 19, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Monday, May 19, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

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Damage reported aft Kansas municipality takes ‘direct hit’ during uncommon Tornado Emergency

Significant harm was reported successful occidental Kansas aboriginal Monday morning aft almighty storms produced tornadoes that damaged galore homes and brought down trees and powerfulness lines amid a uncommon Tornado Emergency.

One of the hardest-hit areas appeared to beryllium the metropolis of Plevna, Kansas. The National Weather Service bureau successful Wichita had issued a Tornado Emergency for Plevna, Sylvia and Abbyville aboriginal Monday morning.

Damage assessments proceed successful Kentucky, Missouri successful aftermath of deadly tornado outbreak

First responders are continuing their heroic betterment efforts to hunt and wide the countless piles of destroyed homes and businesses successful Kentucky and Missouri, days aft a disastrous tornado outbreak tore crossed those states, leaving dozens of radical dead.

Kentucky suffered wide damage, particularly successful London and Somerset. Gov. Andy Beshear said astatine slightest 19 radical were killed successful his state, though Kentucky Rep. Hal Rogers believes that fig could beryllium person to 2 dozen. At slightest 7 others were besides killed successful Missouri.

Central US connected precocious alert Monday for unsafe tornadoes, elephantine hail and destructive winds

The central U.S. volition stay nether a heightened hazard of terrible upwind connected Monday, including parts of tornado-ravaged Missouri, wherever astatine slightest 7 radical were killed during Friday's outbreak.

The FOX Forecast Center warns that a wide portion from Kansas and Oklahoma extending into parts of Missouri and Arkansas is expected to acquisition terrible thunderstorms. A concerning Level 4 retired of 5 terrible upwind threat includes large cities similar Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman and Broken Arrow successful Oklahoma, arsenic good arsenic Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

Watch this: Tornado seen spinning extracurricular of Denver

While all eyes were connected Oklahoma and Kansas connected Sunday for severe weather, respective tornadoes were besides reported successful eastbound Colorado.

A monolithic tornado stopped radical successful their tracks extracurricular of Denver, conscionable arsenic the twister descended from the clouds. 

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