Tornado Watch in Effect After a rough two days, we have one more before the current weather system goes out to sea.  Tbe area in brown has a significant risk of a couple of tornadoes and there is a chance they could be strong. Please keep an eye on the weather today.  It appears ten people in Oklahoma and Michigan were killed by these tornadoes. 

Kathleen and I recently took a trip to Miami as I felt I needed to get out of the cold and get a little sunshine and warmth.  I want to give you a strong book recommendation for your spring break trip and that is Rentry  by ArsTechnica's space reporter Eric Berger.  It is the story of Elon Musk's Space-X and how they created the reusable rocket entry. While that may sound technical it is actually a fascinating and, at times, gripping story well told. My only quibble is some political comments in the Epilogue that (to me) seemed quite out of place such as his criticism of Musk buying Twitter. If not for that, I would give the book an A+ rather than an A.    Have a great spring break!!

I have called it a night.  There is a chance of a tornado or two in Ohio and adjacent areas later today. I will have an updated forecast in the late morning.  Tragically, there were more tornado fatalities in Michigan and Oklahoma yesterday. 

I am providing additional storm coverage on Twitter/X   @usweatherexpert .  Tornado threat continues until 4am. The yellow area is new = enhanced risk of strong tornadoes. This is major update to the earlier forecast. The brown area has a significant risk of tornadoes. If you have friends in the yellow area, you may wish to let them know that tornado threat has gone up since the earlier evening newscasts. 

 After a long afternoon and night tracking tornadoes on Twitter/X ( @usweatherexpert ), it looks like another day of tornadoes is possible today.  I will have a forecast up around mid-morning.  P.S. 12:30am  We have reports that two were killed by the tornado near Fairview, Oklahoma, Thursday evening. It will be important to keep up on the weather in the central U.S. today.

YELLOW: Tornado, large hail and damaging wind threat until 4am but the tornado threat is lesser than farther south. f RED:  Tornado watch has been issued. It is in effect until midnight. In addition to the threat of tornadoes (possibly strong tornadoes), hail up to 2.5" and wind gusts to 75 mph are also possible. The image was grabbed at 6:10pm.  --- Here is the tornado forecast from 2pm this afternoon to 6am Friday. There is an enhanced  risk of strong tornadoes in the area in yellow. It includes Altus, OK.   The area in brown has a significant risk of tornadoes and, if one occurs, there is an outside chance it could be strong. The risk in the green area, while not zero, is very small.