Severe Storms Aim for Oklahoma to Missouri Tuesday

The unusual lull in severe weather across the United States will come to an end on Tuesday with locally strong to severe thunderstorms centered on parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas.

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) only issued four tornado watches and no severe thunderstorm watches from the start of January through March 22. None of the tornado watches were in effect in March.

Unfortunately, the lack of widespread severe weather will come to an end during this first full week of spring. There will be risks to lives and property over part of the Central states.

The severe weather danger will progressively increase through Tuesday across the south-central Plains.

Some thunderstorms developed across Kansas on Monday night, but stronger, and somewhat more organized thunderstorms are expected to erupt from late Tuesday into Tuesday night from eastern Oklahoma to central Missouri.

Muskogee and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Fayetteville, Arkansas; and Springfield, Columbia and St. Louis, Missouri lie in Tuesday's threat zone.