A look at breaking weather stories across the nation.
The main severe storm threat Tuesday will be northwest of the Oklahoma City area Tuesday afternoon; however, much of central Oklahoma and eastern Kansas will be at risk again by the late evening.
A new week is underway and another round of severe weather is unfolding, including the risk of tornadoes over the Plains.
The overall storm system projected to bring the violent storms to the Plains this week is neither as intense nor as slow-moving as that of last week. However, the system is strong enough to threaten lives and property with severe weather, including some of the same areas hit hard by last week's destructive and deadly storms.
The storms are more likely to hit most areas after the evening rush hour, rather than during most of the midday and afternoon.
A quick-moving band of intense thunderstorms dropped several inches of rain in already waterlogged areas around Moore, Okla. This is also the same area hit hard with tornadoes over the past several weeks.
The latest information indicates that the tornado, which struck near El Reno, Okla. on May 31, 2013 is the widest tornado on record at 2.6 miles, according to the National Weather Service. Comparatively, the tornado which struck Moore, Okla. earlier in May was approximately 1.3 miles wide.
Storms this week over the region this week are likely to be much less intense, when compared to last week's monsters.
Late Monday, severe storms were found from the northern Texas Panhandle northward into western parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Storms that fired over the High Plains Monday evening formed a complex of severe weather, which survived overnight and rolled across central Oklahoma Tuesday morning.
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