A multiday severe weather threat begins Sunday, putting tens of millions of people on notice from the Plains to the Southeast and mid-Atlantic. The most recent information is broken down by FOX Weather Meteorologist Jane Minar on June 1, 2025.
A multiday severe weather threat begins Sunday and will last through at least the first part of the next workweek, putting tens of millions of people in danger of storms from the Plains to the Southeast and mid-Atlantic.
On Sunday morning, a tornado warning was issued in Florida, while severe thunderstorms and flash flooding were recorded in parts of Oklahoma. While residents in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast confronted their severe storm threat in the evening, the threat moved further south into Texas on Sunday afternoon.
Strong to severe thunderstorms were expected to affect over 42 million people in the United States on Sunday. On its 5-point severe thunderstorm danger scale, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) rated parts of Texas as having a Level 2 risk.
Cities like Arlington, Garland, Irving, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex are among those at increased danger.
The SPC classified parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee as Level 1 threats in the mid-Atlantic.
Nashville, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina, are two cities in this risk zone.
As storms move across the Florida Peninsula, Miami is in danger at Level 1.
The possibility of severe weather will persist through the first half of the next workweek, with Monday and Tuesday posing the greatest risk to millions of people across the Midwest and Plains.
Thunderstorms are a concern Monday afternoon and evening from South Dakota across the central and southern Plains, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
From southwestern Minnesota to the Texas Panhandle, more than 1.5 million people—including residents of Denver, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; and Wichita, Kansas—are under a Level 2 out of 5 hazard.
The threat extends from Texas to the Great Lakes region on Tuesday. Cities like Oklahoma City and Tulsa in Oklahoma, Kansas City in Missouri, and Madison in Wisconsin are among the more than 12 million people in a Level 2 out of 5 threat, which stretches from southern Wisconsin to North Texas.
