Tornado warnings were active across multiple counties as AccuPrime aired live on the evening of May 6.
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00:02 - We are continuing to track a dangerous
00:10 severe weather threat in the plains tonight.
00:12 An extreme risk of severe weather has been issued
00:15 by our expert meteorologist, which is rare.
00:18 And as AccuWeather severe weather expert,
00:20 Guy Pearson explains, it's not common.
00:23 - The extreme aspect is something
00:25 that we don't use lightly.
00:27 We only use it two, maybe three times a year.
00:29 So if you're in that area, we wanna make sure everybody,
00:32 you already know where your tornado shelters are
00:34 in case you need to go.
00:35 But in addition to tornadoes,
00:38 then there are gonna be strong damaging winds
00:41 from thunderstorms, as well as that giant hail.
00:44 - And again, hail has been one of the risks
00:49 as we've gone through the night.
00:50 We've also had that threat for tornadic activity.
00:54 Already seen some of those thunderstorms, by the way,
00:56 fire up with that severe weather too on the move.
01:01 So as we talk about the storm pattern here,
01:03 it's a low pressure system that's still spinning up.
01:06 It produced at least one report of a tornado
01:09 in Northwestern South Dakota,
01:12 but most of the hail and wind reports,
01:14 as well as tornadic reports,
01:16 have been coming through some of the plains here.
01:18 So that's where we've been keeping an eye
01:20 on these thunderstorms.
01:21 It's still firing up at this point in time.
01:23 And just to put the radar back on for you,
01:26 you can see that line of thunderstorms
01:27 still sliding its way east with it.
01:29 Severe thunderstorm warnings, also tornado warnings.
01:32 And that's what I wanna cover.
01:33 Some of those tornado warnings
01:35 that are currently in place in Oklahoma,
01:37 because we do have a lot of storm chasers
01:39 following those thunderstorms
01:41 as they slide their way on east.
01:43 And we'll take you in a little bit closer
01:46 with the high definition radar,
01:47 because boy, some of these signatures of storms
01:51 are suggesting that it is very likely
01:53 there are tornadoes on the ground here,
01:55 including some of these hooks.
01:56 You can see this one all the way wraps around.
01:58 And then we've also started to see that signature
02:01 more defined on that storm to the southwest.
02:03 So three tornado warnings at this point in time.
02:05 One that goes from Blaine into Kingfisher County,
02:08 Ohio, Oklahoma, rather, until 7.30 Central Time.
02:11 There's a confirmed tornado warning
02:13 where broadcast media has spotted it on the ground
02:16 into Garfield, Oklahoma County, and also Kingfisher County.
02:19 And then as you work your way into Grant County, Oklahoma,
02:22 there's a tornado warning
02:23 which crosses into Interstate 35 Corridor
02:27 in K County, Oklahoma.
02:28 So all of these spots, make sure you're in your safe place
02:31 and ready to heed those warnings.
02:33 There are tornado watch boxes in place
02:36 and severe thunderstorm watch boxes in place
02:39 just for these storms as they continue to work east.
02:42 And that southern threat there
02:43 is particularly concerning for tornadoes.
02:45 As those spotty cells develop,
02:46 it becomes more of a line overnight.
02:49 So that'll mean a rain and wind threat
02:50 through St. Louis into Chicago,
02:52 heading into tomorrow morning.