Millions of people across Oklahoma, southern Kansas at risk of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms

Forecasters accidental millions of radical successful the cardinal United States could spot almighty storms Monday including long-track tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and baseball-sized hail

Millions of radical successful the cardinal United States could spot almighty storms Monday including long-track tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and baseball-sized hail, forecasters said.

Much of Oklahoma and parts of Kansas are astatine the top hazard of atrocious upwind — including parts of Oklahoma, specified arsenic Sulphur and Holdenville, inactive recovering from a tornado that killed 4 and near thousands without powerfulness past week.

In all, astir 10 cardinal radical unrecorded successful areas nether menace of terrible weather, the Storm Prediction Center said. Forecasters determination issued a uncommon precocious hazard for cardinal Oklahoma and confederate Kansas. The past clip a precocious hazard was issued was March 31, 2023, erstwhile a monolithic tempest strategy tore done parts of the South and Midwest including Arkansas, Illinois and agrarian Indiana.

Other cities that could spot stormy upwind see Kansas City, Missouri and Lincoln, Nebraska.

The full week is looking stormy. Indianapolis, Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis and Cincinnati, could spot terrible thunderstorms aboriginal successful the week, impacting much than 21 cardinal people.

Meanwhile, aboriginal Monday dense rains deed southwestern Texas, particularly the Houston area, leaving neighborhoods flooded and starring to hundreds of high-water rescues.

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Alexa St. John is an Associated Press clime solutions reporter. Follow her connected X: @alexa_stjohn. Reach her astatine ast.john@ap.org.