Powerful storms target the central US

Flood threats are on the rise across Oklahoma.

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00:00As of right now we have multiple severe thunderstorms ongoing from parts of Colorado,

00:04New Mexico, even some storms now extending into parts of Arizona that we'll be tracking here for

00:09you but as of right now I have a lightning on here because lightning is normally a good indicator

00:13on the overall intensity of storms and you can see that if one area here specifically stands out

00:18there's two actually that are standing out. One is going to be here across northern parts of

00:22Mississippi and Alabama right there so we're going to be watching out for those areas but yes we have

00:28these storms over here. We also have a pretty potent storm here across the eastern parts of

00:33Missouri but the main show right now is continuing here across southern parts of Oklahoma so let's go

00:39and take a closer look here. You can see these storms are going to be well to the south of the

00:43I-40 corridor so if you live along I-40 from El Reno to Oklahoma City to Shawnee good news is you're

00:49going to be in the clear because these storms are well south of the I-40 corridor and they're slowly

00:54inching their way to the south so one thing I will point out those yellow boxes you see right there

00:58those are for severe thunderstorm warnings but you can see that some of those yellow boxes have been

01:02replaced by it's going to take a closer look those yellow boxes have been replaced by those teal boxes

01:07and those teal boxes are for flash flood warnings so for Ada we have a severe or we had a severe

01:13thunderstorm warning that is now a flash flood warning that's for Pontotoc County which Ada is

01:18right there in the center. Comanche County which is where Lawton is once again Lawton now has a flash

01:22flood warning in effect because overall these storms are moving very very slow here so once again

01:27Oklahoma City, Edmond, Norman, Moore, Newcastle all those areas even Chickasha looking like you're

01:32going to be in the clear here going forward for the overall risk of severe weather but as we look

01:37at the risk we're tracking as we head into tonight flooding is going to be elevated because of how

01:41slow some of these storms are going to be moving we're also going to see some strong winds developing

01:45for some of these storms we'll be watching out for but the good news is as far as any damaging hail

01:49or as far as any tornadoes the overall risk it's not zero but it is going to be relatively low here

01:54as we head into this evening but you can see the highest potential severe weather will be primarily

01:58across southern and southeastern parts of Oklahoma extending into southwestern parts of the state as

02:03well Jeff right here along that Red River corridor and you know Damien I was thinking about uh our

02:08conversation some make the argument that this Lake St. Clair this is home to the area near Detroit

02:13uh should be the sixth grade lake maybe it's a little small but some make that argument

02:17you don't look impressed all right yeah it kind of gets lost behind the label there