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Map Phenomena States Warning Summary Warning Counties Warning End Map
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 902 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Corona De Tucson, or 15 miles east of Sahuarita, moving southwest at 10 mph.  
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 859 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Buckeye, moving southwest at 15 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Maricopa EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 820 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles southeast of Vail, or 14 miles west of Benson, moving southwest at 10 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Pima EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 759 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near White Tank Mountain Park, or near Waddell, moving south at 5 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Maricopa EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 732 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Kartchner Caverns State Park, or near Benson, moving southwest at 25 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cochise EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 713 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Beardsley, or near Sun City West, moving south at 15 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Maricopa EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 707 PM MST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles south of Willcox to 9 miles southeast of Pearce-Sunsites to 12 miles north of Bisbee, moving southwest at 10 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cochise EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
IA
At 842 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Winterset, moving east at 25 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Madison / Warren EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 641 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Huachuca City, or 15 miles northwest of Sierra Vista, moving northwest at 20 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cochise / Pima / Santa Cruz EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 637 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lake Pleasant, or 9 miles northwest of New River, moving south at 10 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Yavapai EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 624 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles southeast of Pearce-Sunsites, or 28 miles south of Willcox, moving west at 20 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cochise EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 616 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Castle Hot Springs, or 12 miles northwest of New River, moving south at 10 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Yavapai EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 614 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Castle Hot Springs, or 9 miles northwest of New River, moving south at 10 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Maricopa EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 614 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located 14 miles west of Willcox, moving southwest at 20 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cochise EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 605 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Sierra Vista, moving northwest at 20 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cochise / Pima / Santa Cruz EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
IA
At 754 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles north of Grinnell, moving east at 35 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Jasper / Marshall / Poweshiek / Tama EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 853 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 14 nm west of Bayport to 15 nm northwest of Anclote Key to 38 nm west of Clearwater Beach, moving northwest at 20 knots.  
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severe thunderstorm
AL
At 750 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Emerald Mountain, or 7 miles southeast of Wetumpka, moving southwest at 15 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Elmore / Montgomery EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 538 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles northeast of Woodruff, near the south entrance of Petrified Forest moving southwest at 25 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Apache / Navajo EXPIRED show me
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severe thunderstorm
AZ
At 526 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Hereford, or near Sierra Vista, moving west at 15 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Cochise / Santa Cruz 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.

Older warnings are coming soon.

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Today's tornado outlook and current severe weather watches

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today's tornado threat

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

map of severe thunderstorm and tornado watches in effect

current severe weather watches

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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On the Tornado Solitaire website you can play your favorite card games whilst keeping tabs on the US severe weather warnings.

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