Latest Weather | Storms possible Monday

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Well, sure. It was a warm and humid afternoon. Did you feel it out there earlier with some of those higher due points and those warm temperatures in the 80s? Definitely notice more of that active weather off into the upper Midwest with a cold front and a dry line attached. But you kind of see the bulk of the severe weather into Kansas up through Iowa and Minnesota. Really just a nasty line of storms. If you kind of zoom in a little bit closer, yeah, you see a few showers in the Red River Valley. Couple of those could kind of creep into parts of Lafllor and Scott County, but for the time being, we are on the dry side. All right, if we look at futurecast the next several hours, it's kind of depicting that little round of showers kind of near the uh Tex Arcana, southeast Oklahoma vicinity.

[00:00:32]Maybe a couple of them start to reach places like Laflor, Scotty, maybe up to Logan County. So, a couple of showers, maybe a possible storm heading into the next several hours. But after that, we'll start to see a little more calmer weather before maybe some more residual showers are possible heading into Monday morning. You kind of see that there on futurecast. And as we work our way into Monday afternoon, some hit or miss storms are possible. Notice these aren't going to be widespread. So these are kind of hit or miss in nature and you'll kind of see that there Monday afternoon.

[00:00:57]That kind of continues for Monday evening with probably some dry time after sunset there for some Monday. Now if you look at our severe zone for tomorrow, it's kind of a similar setup to what we saw for today's. Not everyone sees a storm. Not everyone sees a severe storm as well. You kind of know this at level one at a five severe weather risk in Greenwood with parts of Benton and some of our Oklahoma counties in that level two out of five severe risk. We mainly be watching some wind gusts, maybe even some hail on the tornado.

[00:01:20]potential is on the very low side with any of those storms for Monday. So, here's how it could play out hour by hour in northwest Arkansas. We're certainly waking up on the mild side into the 70s, maybe dodging a few showers out there as you work our way into the afternoon hours, getting into those lower to middle 80s there. We'll probably have mostly cloudy to start, ending with some partly cloudy conditions. And then across the river valley, mostly cloudy, temperatures in the mid70s. Look at those warm temperatures starting out on Monday and then potentially getting up to the upper 80s. It's another humid day, but it's also another breezy day. We'll have wind gusts of 30 to 35 mph possible once again. Now, it showed you that severe zone and we'll probably have some dry time a little after sunset Monday.

[00:01:56]Here's Monday at 8:00 p.m. Now, we're getting into overnight Monday into early Tuesday morning. Here's that next line of storms that we're going to be watching coming in from northeast Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. And if this line can hold together, it's going to be posing some damaging winds and then obviously some localized heavy rainfall potential with that as it starts to get down northwest Arkansas first. So heads up for that Monday, not Monday, Tuesday morning communicating getting in the river valley by about lunchtime into the afternoon hours with some of those pockets of some heavier thunderstorms. That kind of continues for the afternoon before that axis of heaviest rainfall shifts a little bit further south as we go throughout the day on Tuesday. And there's that severe zone for Tuesday, that level two out of five severe zone just because we're expecting some widespread thunderstorms during the morning and even into the afternoon hours of your Tuesday. And our rain chances continue for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday throughout the week. So might need the umbrella. If we look at our rain amounts, at least future rainfall amounts the next seven days, anywhere from say 1 to 2 in, maybe a few folks ending up getting a little lucky with just over two inches the further south you go, but over I think 1 to two inches is a good bet over the next several days. So, not just Tuesday, but Wednesday, Thursday, Friday as well. So, it's definitely an active pattern here that's setting up over the next 10 days.

[00:03:04]And looks like Tuesday is our best chance at seeing those widespread thunderstorms. We'll actually have to watch that for some severe potential.

[00:03:10]We'll hold on to those rain chances Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Saturday, Sunday getting back up into those 80s. We'll kind of maintain some of those lower rain chances. There's some indications that we could be seeing some more showers and storms. And then the River Valley, it's a low potential for Monday. Only about a 20 30% chance.

[00:03:24]Not everyone sees a spot storm out there. Much better opportunity for Tuesday. And those temperatures go from the 70s into the upper 80s heading to about seven to 10 days from