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Hayley here - Do you want to see the severe weather outlook on your calendar?


* it's like an add-on for your digital calendar NOT a paper calendar

You are on the experimental live-updating severe weather page. If you experience problems, you can use the regular versions of the tornado tracker and severe weather tracker maps.

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TornadoHQ.com - live severe weather map

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Map Phenomena States Warning Summary - Tornado HQ Warning Counties Warning End Map
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severe thunderstorm
IA
At 425 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Herbert Hoover National Historic Site to near Muscatine County Fairgrounds, moving east at 45 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cedar / Muscatine 2026-05-04 22:00:00 UTC show me
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severe thunderstorm
IA
At 333 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over New Liberty, or 9 miles north of Durant, moving east at 45 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cedar / Clinton / Scott EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
IL
At 248 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Freeburg, moving east at 40 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Clinton / St. Clair / Washington EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 413 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Floyd's Wall Southwest, moving east at 25 knots.  
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special marine
At 352 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near 409 Humps, moving east at 25 knots.  
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special marine
At 341 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 15 nm east of Floyd's Wall Northeast, moving east at 25 knots.  
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special marine
At 332 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 8 nm north of Marathon Humps, moving east at 25 knots.  
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special marine
At 319 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 7 nm northeast of Floyd's Wall Northeast, moving east at 25 knots.  
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special marine
At 254 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Islamorada Hump, moving east at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 237 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Islamorada Hump, moving east at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 143 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 22 nm east of Cape Florida, moving northeast at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 111 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 14 nm northeast of Triumph Reef, moving northeast at 20 knots.  
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severe thunderstorm
IL
At 1201 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Shipman, or 12 miles west of Gillespie, moving southeast at 30 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Macoupin EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
IL
At 1151 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Stonington, or 11 miles northeast of Taylorville, moving east at 55 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Christian / Shelby EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 1232 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 7 nm west of Oxfoot Bank Light, moving east at 25 knots.  
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special marine
At 1206 AM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Angelfish Key to near Pacific Reef, moving east at 25 knots.  
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severe thunderstorm
IL
At 1045 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Stonington, or near Taylorville, moving southeast at 50 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Christian / Shelby EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 1143 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 13 nm north of Content Keys, moving east at 20 knots.  
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severe thunderstorm
IL / MO
At 1038 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles west of Grafton, or 11 miles north of St. Charles, moving east at 50 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Jersey / Macoupin / Madison / St. Charles EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
IL / MO
At 1015 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Moscow Mills, or near Troy, moving east at 50 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Calhoun / Jersey / Lincoln / St. Charles 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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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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