The latest Severe Weather Outlooks have come in from the Storm Prediction Center. There is a slight risk of severe weather mainly this afternoon into the overnight hours on Thursday night, Friday morning for the western half of the state. The risk area has contracted back to its originial position that it was in yesterday at this time. (It had been expanded to include most of the state at midday yesterday) The main threats are still the same as yesterday, with large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes (mainly early on). Thunderstorms are expected to develop along a cold front that will be moving into the state later this afternoon. After sunset, the storms will transition into more of a damaging wind threat as they continue moving eastward across the state.

On Friday, there is a slight risk of severe weather for the eastern 2/3rds of the state, (mainly along and east of I-35). The main threats again will be the same as today, with large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. Thunderstorms are expected to refire somewhere along the I-35 corridor late in the afternoon and move quickly to the east and northeast. There is a heightened threat of severe weather in the eastern quarter of the state into neighboring SW Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Also at the same time, severe weather is expected all the way to the gulf coast, which may limit the amount of moisture from the gulf any storms up here will be able to work with. The severe weather threat will move out of the state after Midnight early on Saturday morning, leaving the upcoming weekend mainly dry (except in the SE where a few more showers and storms are possible late Saturday) and warm with highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.