Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

The National Weather Service has made changes to our Flash Flood Warnings that includes impact based information and tags at the bottom of the warnings based on expected severity. These features are similar to our current Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings.

The Flash Flood Warnings (FFW) will now have tags and information at the bottom that includes:

No Tag ("base" FFW) - Used when flash flooding impact damage is possible.
Considerable - Unusual severity - urgent action is needed.
Catastrophic - Threat to life and catastrophic damage; levels rarely seen.

IMPORTANT: Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) via cell phones will ONLY forward warnings with the "considerable" or "catastrophic" tags.

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Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Impact Based Flash Flood Warnings & WEA Changes