Severe Weather Threat Returns To Storm-Fatigued Plains, Midwest, South Late This Week

Jennifer Gray Mon, April 20, 2026 at 10:19 AM UTC

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Severe weather is expected to return to parts of the Plains, Midwest and South later this week following last week's siege of tornadoes, hail and damaging winds in some of those same areas.

While the details are still being fine-tuned, consider this your early look at the week ahead when it comes to the risk of severe weather.

Thursday

The next round of severe weather will impact a portion of the Plains from Minnesota to Oklahoma, possibly into parts of Texas Thursday afternoon and evening.

Friday Through Friday Night

On Friday, the severe threat shifts east and south, from Texas to Missouri.

While it's too soon to lay out details of each threat, large hail, damaging wind gusts, a few tornadoes and locally flooding rain is possible in these areas.

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Shaded on the map above is the likelihood of severe thunderstorms, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. Note that not all categories apply to the severe weather risk on a particular day.Last Week's Siege

This small breather early this week is welcomed after a busy stretch last week.

Last Friday alone, there were 59 tornado reports among the 462 severe weather reports.

Data: NOAA/NWS/SPC

In all, there were over 1,250 reports of severe weather in the U.S. from last Monday through last Friday, including 116 reports of tornadoes, 520 reports of hail and 625 reports of thunderstorm wind damage or high wind gusts.

As you can see, many of the same areas that are under the risk of severe weather later this week are areas that have already been hit hard by severe weather last week.

Make sure you have multiple ways to receive alerts, should severe weather strike on Thursday and Friday.

Jennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades.

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