Severe Weather Alert: Safety Tips for Truck Drivers

Severe Weather Timeline and Threats

Monday Night

• An intensifying low-pressure system combined with increasing Gulf moisture will trigger severe weather in the Southern Plains.

• Areas at risk include central and eastern Oklahoma and north-central Texas, including Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Dallas-Fort Worth.

• Expected hazards include large hail, wind damage, and possible tornadoes.

Tuesday and Tuesday Night

• NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has identified a heightened threat for severe thunderstorms from eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma to the lower Mississippi Valley, Alabama, and western Georgia.

• The greatest risk includes Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, with key cities such as Jackson, MS, Little Rock, AR, and Shreveport, LA, under threat.

• Severe storms could persist from morning through the evening, moving eastward throughout the day.

• Damaging winds and several tornadoes are possible, with the highest risk of strong tornadoes (EF2 or greater) in southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana, and central Mississippi.

Wednesday

• Severe weather will continue ahead of the cold front, affecting parts of the East Coast.

• Areas at risk include Delaware, Maryland, northern Florida, Charleston (SC), Raleigh (NC), Richmond (VA), and Washington, D.C.

• The primary threats are damaging winds and the possibility of tornadoes.

Flood Threat

• Heavy rain is expected in parts of the Midwest and South, potentially leading to localized flash flooding.

• Areas that experienced recent flooding, particularly in Kentucky and Tennessee, should remain alert.

• Rainfall totals could reach at least 2 inches in some locations, but this event is not expected to be as prolonged as the mid-February storm.