Severe storms slamming Plains and Midwest with damaging winds

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Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reports from Carnegie, Oklahoma, on his storm chase on the evening of June 17 as well as what looming storm threat across the Plains and Midwest in the afternoon of June 18.

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00:00Storm chaser Aaron Jajak is live from Carnegie, Oklahoma.

00:03Mr. Jajak, you've captured some amazing videography over the past couple days.

00:08What's the status right now?

00:12Yeah, I'm down here in Oklahoma.

00:14I was up here in Oklahoma yesterday tracking the threat, the storm system that's now racing off to the east,

00:19that main energy up there in Illinois right now, as you mentioned, producing those,

00:23have those tornado warnings, ongoing tornado warnings right now.

00:25But we tracked a lone supercell last night, started off in the Oklahoma panhandle,

00:30crossed through the Texas panhandle briefly before coming back into Oklahoma.

00:33It was tornado warned, produced multiple tornado warnings.

00:36Don't know that there was actually a confirmed tornado in there,

00:39but there was a big supercell that brought with it, big-time winds.

00:43It was one of the most powerful wind event supercells I've been around in a while,

00:48but very strong winds, hail, and it moved to the southeast, down to Weatherford, Oklahoma,

00:54before eventually forming into more of a bowing segment

00:56and producing more tornado warnings up to the north of Oklahoma City.

01:00So, wasn't able to make it up to Illinois for the threat up there today,

01:04but we do have a threat down here in Oklahoma today.

01:06On the very tail end of this storm system we've been tracking the last couple of days,

01:11supercells are possible.

01:13The main threat being wind and hail.

01:16There is a very low risk for a tornado threat here,

01:18but we'll be targeting down here in Oklahoma, down in that Red River region,

01:22a lot in Oklahoma, down to maybe even Wichita Falls, Texas,

01:25towards sunset when we expect supercells to potentially fire along that boundary.

01:30So, not a big threat down here,

01:32but we'll definitely be tracking the storms for you all this afternoon.

01:35Back to you guys.

01:36Yeah, absolutely.

01:37So, Aaron, we normally try to stress that most people associate with the Southern Plains'

01:40severe weather season, especially tornado season, to be March, April, May,

01:44but we can also see some pretty potent storms in June, even July as well.

01:51Yeah, you know, and that's totally correct.

01:53You know, when you get into June, July, you get a lot of that available potential energy,

01:58a lot of juice in the atmosphere.

02:00You can get those big-time supercells.

02:02You may not have the shear that you normally have in those earlier months in spring

02:05that can bring the tornadoes with it,

02:07but you can get supercells that can produce big-time hail and big-time winds here.

02:11And, of course, any time you do get a supercell, a tornado is definitely possible,

02:14as you can see in Nebraska the other day.

02:17It wasn't a big environment for tornadoes, just a low risk for tornadoes there,

02:20but we had a supercell and it produced a tornado for over an hour.

02:23So, tornadoes can happen any time you get a supercell,

02:26and we'll be looking for those today for you guys.

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