Severe weather threat returns to Plains this week after Easter weekend storms turned deadly

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The menace of severe weather volition instrumentality to portions of the cardinal U.S. this week, days aft deadly storms that produced flooding rain, hail and tornadoes pummeled the Plains implicit the Easter weekend.

Three radical were killed successful Oklahoma during the extreme weather – 1 during a tornado successful Spaulding and 2 owed to flooding erstwhile their conveyance washed distant successful Moore.

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  • This representation  shows harm  to the City of Columbia Material Recovery Facility aft  terrible  upwind  connected  Sunday, April 21, 2025.

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    This representation shows harm to the City of Columbia Material Recovery Facility aft terrible upwind connected Sunday, April 21, 2025. (Columbia, MO Fire Department/Facebook)

  • This representation  sows tornado harm  successful  Spaulding, Oklahoma.

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    This representation sows tornado harm successful Spaulding, Oklahoma. (Hughes County Emergency Management/Facebook)

  • This representation  sows tornado harm  successful  Spaulding, Oklahoma.

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    This representation sows tornado harm successful Spaulding, Oklahoma. (Hughes County Emergency Management/Facebook)

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    A communal taxable passim the Fayetteville assemblage is yet different location with the extortion partially ripped away. (@ColbyEffect / X)

  • The extortion   of an Arkansas location  has been ripped isolated  owed  to the utmost  winds.

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    The extortion of an Arkansas location has been ripped isolated owed to the utmost winds. (@ColbyEffect / X)

  • A location  successful  a Fayetteville vicinity  had its beforehand   2  windows ripped distant  from the house's structure. Two ample  windows person  been covered.

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    A location successful a Fayetteville vicinity had its beforehand 2 windows ripped distant from the house's structure. Two ample windows person been covered. (@ColbyEffect / X)

  • A unsmooth  country   successful  Arkansas arsenic  a imaginable  tornado ripped done  communities passim  the state.

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    A unsmooth country successful Arkansas arsenic a imaginable tornado ripped done communities passim the state. (@ColbyEffect / X)

  • A funnel unreality  was spotted successful  Camdenton, Missouri connected  Sunday during tornado-warned storms. 

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    A funnel unreality was spotted successful Camdenton, Missouri connected Sunday during tornado-warned storms.  (Daniel Carnahan)

  • At slightest  2  people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed aft  their conveyance  was washed distant  by flooding successful  Moore, Oklahoma, connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    At slightest 2 people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed aft their conveyance was washed distant by flooding successful Moore, Oklahoma, connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (KWTV)

  • Storm harm  successful  Garrett County, Maryland connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    Storm harm successful Garrett County, Maryland connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Garrett County OEM / 911 Communications)

  • Storm harm  successful  Garrett County, Maryland connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    Storm harm successful Garrett County, Maryland connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Garrett County OEM / 911 Communications)

  • Storm harm  successful  Grantsville, Maryland connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    Storm harm successful Grantsville, Maryland connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Garrett County OEM / 911 Communications)

  • Storm harm  successful  Grantsville, Maryland connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    Storm harm successful Grantsville, Maryland connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Garrett County OEM / 911 Communications)

  • This representation  shows harm  that occurred during terrible  upwind  successful  Jacksboro, Texas, connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    This representation shows harm that occurred during terrible upwind successful Jacksboro, Texas, connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (@scr0sX/X)

  • This representation  shows harm  that occurred during terrible  upwind  successful  Jacksboro, Texas, connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    This representation shows harm that occurred during terrible upwind successful Jacksboro, Texas, connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (@scr0sX/X)

  • This representation  shows harm  that occurred during terrible  upwind  successful  Jacksboro, Texas, connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    This representation shows harm that occurred during terrible upwind successful Jacksboro, Texas, connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (@scr0sX/X)

  • Tornado harm  successful  Ada, Oklahoma connected  April 19, 2025.

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    Tornado harm successful Ada, Oklahoma connected April 19, 2025.  (Charlotte Rebecca Allen/Facebook)

  • Tornado harm  successful  Ada, Oklahoma connected  April 19, 2025.

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    Tornado harm successful Ada, Oklahoma connected April 19, 2025.  (Charlotte Rebecca Allen/Facebook)

  • Tornado harm  successful  Ada, Oklahoma connected  April 19, 2025.

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    Tornado harm successful Ada, Oklahoma connected April 19, 2025.  (Charlotte Rebecca Allen/Facebook)

  • This representation  shows a tornado adjacent   Hico, Texas, connected  Saturday, April 19, 2025.

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    This representation shows a tornado adjacent Hico, Texas, connected Saturday, April 19, 2025. (@DrChrisWJackson/X)

Now, residents crossed the portion volition lone person a time to drawback their enactment and wide debris earlier the menace of almighty thunderstorms returns.

The FOX Forecast Center said the menace of storms and flooding rainfall volition ramp up starting Tuesday afternoon, with the highest menace being located crossed portions of West Texas and occidental Oklahoma.

"I person to beryllium honest, this is simply a classical setup," FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin said. "It’s a dryline setup. So, if you’re a local, you cognize precisely what we’re talking about."

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This graphic explains a dryline.

This graphic explains a dryline.

(FOX Weather)

A dryline is simply a bound betwixt a adust aerial wide and a humid 1 that is usually recovered successful the cardinal and confederate Plains during the spring and summer months. It usually advances eastward successful the day hours and retreats westward during the evening hours.

"This is simply a setup wherever you commencement to spot these towering thunderstorms that physique up successful the afternoon," Merwin continued. "And the day vigor is portion of the instability. Once that dryline sets up, the thunderstorms are igniting, and they advancement retired towards the east. But, conjecture what? The dryline retreats backmost successful the overnight, and you reload for the adjacent day."

This graphic shows the terrible upwind menace connected Tuesday, April 22, 2025.
(FOX Weather)

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has highlighted areas of Texas from the U.S.-Mexico borderline done Kansas successful the cardinal Plains wherever beardown to terrible thunderstorms could make Tuesday.

However, astir 2 cardinal radical person been placed successful a Level 2 retired of 5 menace of terrible upwind connected its risk scale.

This includes cities specified arsenic Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland and Odessa successful Texas, arsenic good arsenic Hutchinson successful Kansas.

Hail and damaging winds volition beryllium the main threats from immoderate terrible thunderstorms that make Tuesday, but determination is besides a debased accidental of immoderate tornadoes.

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