00:00We are just to the west of Altus, Oklahoma. Tornado watches are coming soon.
00:05Storms are expected to develop in the next hour or two, and there are a couple of different target areas
00:10today.
00:10There's a warm front up through northern Oklahoma.
00:13Could be a couple of renegade supercells that develop on that warm front,
00:16but also latest models are showing storms coming out of northwest Texas, moving into southwestern Oklahoma,
00:22just in time for the magic hour.
00:24That's around 7, 8, 9 p.m., and that is when the low-level jet ramps up in a big
00:30way,
00:30and that's going to cause these supercell storms to tighten up at the low levels and likely produce tornadoes.
00:36Any of those storms that have clean access to the environment, clean access to the low-level jet,
00:41and also the moisture coming in from north Texas should have the potential of producing possibly even a significant tornado
00:48or two through this evening,
00:49but then those supercell storms will congeal into a squall line that will race off to the east.
00:54The low-level jet should intensify just in front of it, and there will be a continued tornado threat,
00:59likely all the way to the Oklahoma City metro late night tonight.
01:03And then tomorrow looks like an even more significant threat of tornadoes,
01:07maybe some fast-moving, strong-to-violent tornadoes across central and northern Illinois.
01:12And in fact, we have three straight days of severe weather ahead as peak season has arrived.
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