Severe weather threat continues as summer heat swelters on both coasts
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Key Points:
- Severe weather threats continue across the central U.S., with a level 3 "enhanced risk" for damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes in parts of Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, including major cities like Kansas City and Wichita.
- A flood watch is active until Sunday morning for eastern Kansas, western Missouri, northeast Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas due to ongoing storm risks.
- On Sunday, over 50 million people on the East Coast face a level 2 "slight risk" for severe storms, with threats including damaging winds, large hail, and lightning from northern North Carolina to upstate New York.
- Summer heat and humidity persist in the South with heat advisories from the Carolinas to Oklahoma, while the Northeast experiences lower humidity despite warm temperatures in the 80s and 90s.
- The West Coast faces extreme heat, with an extreme heat warning for Portland, Oregon, and heat advisories in California's Central Valley and Bay Area, where temperatures could reach 95 to 105 degrees.