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Severe storms slamming Plains and Midwest with damaging winds
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6/18/2025
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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Storm chaser Aaron Jajak is live from Carnegie, Oklahoma.
00:03
Mr. Jajak, you've captured some amazing videography over the past couple days.
00:08
What's the status right now?
00:12
Yeah, I'm down here in Oklahoma.
00:14
I was up here in Oklahoma yesterday tracking the threat, the storm system that's now racing off to the east,
00:19
that main energy up there in Illinois right now, as you mentioned, producing those,
00:23
have those tornado warnings, ongoing tornado warnings right now.
00:25
But we tracked a lone supercell last night, started off in the Oklahoma panhandle,
00:30
crossed through the Texas panhandle briefly before coming back into Oklahoma.
00:33
It was tornado warned, produced multiple tornado warnings.
00:36
Don't know that there was actually a confirmed tornado in there,
00:39
but there was a big supercell that brought with it, big-time winds.
00:43
It was one of the most powerful wind event supercells I've been around in a while,
00:48
but very strong winds, hail, and it moved to the southeast, down to Weatherford, Oklahoma,
00:54
before eventually forming into more of a bowing segment
00:56
and producing more tornado warnings up to the north of Oklahoma City.
01:00
So, wasn't able to make it up to Illinois for the threat up there today,
01:04
but we do have a threat down here in Oklahoma today.
01:06
On the very tail end of this storm system we've been tracking the last couple of days,
01:11
supercells are possible.
01:13
The main threat being wind and hail.
01:16
There is a very low risk for a tornado threat here,
01:18
but we'll be targeting down here in Oklahoma, down in that Red River region,
01:22
a lot in Oklahoma, down to maybe even Wichita Falls, Texas,
01:25
towards sunset when we expect supercells to potentially fire along that boundary.
01:30
So, not a big threat down here,
01:32
but we'll definitely be tracking the storms for you all this afternoon.
01:35
Back to you guys.
01:36
Yeah, absolutely.
01:37
So, Aaron, we normally try to stress that most people associate with the Southern Plains'
01:40
severe weather season, especially tornado season, to be March, April, May,
01:44
but we can also see some pretty potent storms in June, even July as well.
01:51
Yeah, you know, and that's totally correct.
01:53
You know, when you get into June, July, you get a lot of that available potential energy,
01:58
a lot of juice in the atmosphere.
02:00
You can get those big-time supercells.
02:02
You may not have the shear that you normally have in those earlier months in spring
02:05
that can bring the tornadoes with it,
02:07
but you can get supercells that can produce big-time hail and big-time winds here.
02:11
And, of course, any time you do get a supercell, a tornado is definitely possible,
02:14
as you can see in Nebraska the other day.
02:17
It wasn't a big environment for tornadoes, just a low risk for tornadoes there,
02:20
but we had a supercell and it produced a tornado for over an hour.
02:23
So, tornadoes can happen any time you get a supercell,
02:26
and we'll be looking for those today for you guys.
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