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Map Phenomena States Warning Summary - Tornado HQ Warning Counties Warning End Map
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At 1217 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Purcell, or 11 miles north of Joplin, moving northeast at 45 mph.  
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Barton / Dade / Jasper 2026-04-28 18:15:00 UTC show me
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At 1212 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Queen Wilhelmina State Park, or near Mena, moving east at 35 mph.  
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Montgomery / Polk / Scott 2026-04-28 18:00:00 UTC show me
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MO
At 1212 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Humansville, or 13 miles northeast of Stockton, moving east at 40 mph.  
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Cedar / Dallas / Hickory / Polk / St. Clair 2026-04-28 17:45:00 UTC show me
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At 1210 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Bartlesville, moving northeast at 40 mph.  
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Nowata / Washington 2026-04-28 18:00:00 UTC show me
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MO
At 1206 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Clinton, moving northeast at 55 mph.  
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Henry / Johnson / Pettis 2026-04-28 17:45:00 UTC show me
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MO
At 1205 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 9 miles south of Sparta to 12 miles south of Ava, moving east at 40 mph.  
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Christian / Douglas / Ozark / Webster / Wright 2026-04-28 17:30:00 UTC show me
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MO
At 1157 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Fair Grove, or 8 miles northwest of Strafford, moving northeast at 65 mph.  
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Dallas / Greene / Laclede / Polk / Webster 2026-04-28 17:30:00 UTC show me
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At 1156 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles northeast of Hominy, moving northeast at 65 mph.  
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Osage 2026-04-28 17:30:00 UTC show me
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KS / MO
At 1151 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Columbus, moving northeast at 80 mph.  
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Cherokee / Crawford / Barton / Jasper EXPIRED show me
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AR
At 1151 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Marble, moving east at 40 mph.  
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Carroll 2026-04-28 17:30:00 UTC show me
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MO
At 1146 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Sheldon, or 9 miles north of Lamar, moving northeast at 80 mph.  
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Barton / Cedar / St. Clair / Vernon 2026-04-28 17:30:00 UTC show me
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At 1144 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Kingston, or 10 miles east of Huntsville, moving east at 40 mph.  
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Boone / Newton 2026-04-28 17:45:00 UTC show me
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OK / TX
At 1132 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles north of Manchester, or 24 miles north of Clarksville, moving northeast at 50 mph.  
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McCurtain / Red River 2026-04-28 17:30:00 UTC show me
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At 1129 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Marionville, or 7 miles northeast of Aurora, moving northeast at 45 mph.  
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Christian / Dade / Greene / Lawrence / Polk EXPIRED show me
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AR
At 1122 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Wesley, moving east at 40 mph.  
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Carroll / Madison EXPIRED show me
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AL
At 1122 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Brinn, or 10 miles east of Hamilton, moving east at 35 mph.  
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Marion / Winston EXPIRED show me
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MO
At 1104 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Purdy, with another noprtheast of Cassville. The Purdy storm was moving north northeast at 50 mph while the Cassville storm was moving east northeast at 40 mph.  
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Barry / Christian / Lawrence / Stone EXPIRED show me
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At 1106 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over War Eagle, moving east at 40 mph.  
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Benton / Carroll / Madison / Washington EXPIRED show me
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AL
At 1051 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Detroit, or 11 miles north of Sulligent, moving east at 35 mph.  
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Lamar / Marion EXPIRED show me
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At 1051 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 3 miles northeast of Fayetteville, moving northeast at 50 mph.  
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Benton / Carroll / Madison / Washington EXPIRED show me

If you're looking for older warnings, we now have an experimental tornado warning archive for today's tornado warnings and the past 48 hours of warnings.

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Today's tornado outlook and current severe weather watches

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complete severe weather outlook including tornado, wind, and hail threats

map of severe thunderstorm and tornado watches in effect

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Tornado watches are red. Severe thunderstorm watches are blue.

things you should know about this experimental live-updating page

  1. Warnings are delayed. If you are currently affected by severe storms, you should also be paying attention to a local source of information (tv, radio, etc), or have a weather radio, because information on this site can be delayed enough that it could cause you to lose valuable lead time.
  2. The map sometimes breaks in odd ways. At this time, I'm not sure of the actual cause, but every so often, the mapping software will basically lose track of the actual center of the map. It's most obvious when part of the map is black (it's not loading the background). Also, you may notice this bug when you zoom to a specific location or warning, and the map is not centered properly.

    How to fix: The easiest thing is to reload the page. Otherwise, you can try the following to get the map to fix itself:

    1. enter/exit fullscreen map mode
    2. resize the browser window (if a desktop)
    3. change the orientation of the screen (if a tablet/mobile device)
    4. add a new location marker (you can delete the new marker later)

  3. There is experimental voice notifications support. To my knowledge, this only works in the Chrome and Safari browsers. Chrome's default English voice will randomly stop with long text, so I've tried to break up the text into smaller chunks so this doesn't happen. However, this can lead to awkward pauses when it's speaking.
  4. There is now support for tracking custom locations. If you have voice notifications enabled, it will tell you which locations are impacted when it reads new warnings.
  5. Radar on the map will automatically refresh every 5 minutes.
  6. This page is under active development. And things tend to break. A lot. If you think something is wrong, you can reload the page. You can also use the normal severe weather map page which has the same data but does not automatically update.

Remember to check out severe weather outlook for more severe weather and cyclocane for hurricanes.


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