Oklahoma’s Next Round of Severe Weather Starts Tonight

Even though most of Oklahoma has enjoyed a low-key Wednesday after a wild statewide tornado outbreak yesterday, our chances for more severe weather start tonight.

Even though Tuesday, June 3rd had "very low" tornado potential, sirens blared for 22 tornado warnings all across Southwest, Central, and Eastern Oklahoma yesterday. At one point, the entire OKC metro was under four tornado warnings all at the same time.

While it will be days until surveys can be completed, there were confirmed twisters in Norman and Perry, noted by the hoards of video found all over social media.

Lawton had the potential for dropping a finger out of the clouds yesterday near Downtown, but it fell apart as the sirens stopped.

As we spend today breathing a small sigh of relief, the same odds we had on Tuesday are predicted for most of the state starting as early as tonight.

Don't you just hate those overnight storms? Especially right now, while a bunch of our local weather radio stations are down for updates.

You have to admit, the Wednesday night forecast doesn't look menacing at all... but the Thursday outlook isn't so bright.

Again, nocturnal storms across the plains. It might make for a late night of entertaining storm coverage from the OKC channels. If you don't get those channels, you can always stream them from their websites or download their apps. It's the only way Lawton ever knows what's happening with the weather.

On Friday, the storms continue... 

At least we've made it to the part of Tornado Season when you can see a twister coming from pretty far away.

Those April and May storms tend to be so widespread that they wrap twisters up behind a curtain of rain. In June, the supercells tend to be more compact and exposed.

You can see an example of that with Lawton's recent tornadic activity. The storm is almost directly above the Downtown area, rotating menacingly as the sirens sounded, yet it was dry and enjoyably breezy down below. It never lowered a tornado, but it was insanely cool to watch.

The severe weather spills into the weekend. 

More of it for Southwest, Southern, and Southeastern Oklahoma through Saturday.

If you haven't seen the extended forecast, there is rain predicted every day starting tonight through next Tuesday for now, but it isn't predicted to be "severe" after Saturday. Just those normal hot and muggy summer thunderstorms. That's the National Weather Service's prediction. Other weather outlets have rain pegged for most of Oklahoma for the next ten days.

You know the drill, keep an eye in the sky and be weather-aware until we start to see consistent 100°+ days... at which point we'll all be wishing for rain as the state enters the summer drought.