Overview
- A regional severe‑weather outbreak that began late Sunday produced nearly three dozen SPC tornado reports and numerous tornado warnings across the Plains and Midwest.
- Sheriff Jeff Bullard confirmed at least two deaths in rural Jefferson County, Illinois, where mobile homes were destroyed and at least 20 houses were damaged.
- Sheriffs in Gibson and Warrick counties, Indiana, reported major structural damage including several homes flattened and heavy damage at a retirement community, with multiple people treated at hospitals.
- Oklahoma recorded extreme straight‑line winds overnight, including a 164 km/h gust at the Hinton Mesonet site, and the NWS issued a rare urgent severe thunderstorm warning for the Oklahoma City metro.
- The system is moving east and southeast today, keeping a level 3-of-4 flash‑flood risk in parts of the Central Plains, Mississippi and Ohio valleys and placing northern Texas, including the Dallas area, under localized flood and severe‑storm warnings while the NWS begins damage surveys to verify tornado counts.