Overview
- Chicago-area counties are under a severe thunderstorm watch warning of possible tornadoes, isolated 70 mph gusts and ping-pong-ball hail, with a flash flood warning issued for parts of southeast Cook County and nearby areas.
- The Storm Prediction Center flagged southern Lower Michigan, northern Indiana and northeast Illinois for a few organized storms with brief supercell structures, locally damaging winds and a nonzero tornado risk.
- Authorities confirmed a mother and daughter were killed in a tornado-related vehicle crash near Fairview in Major County, Oklahoma, with NWS survey crews assessing the damage.
- Kansas City forecasters expect early evening severe storms followed by a late-night frontal line shifting the primary hazard to damaging straight-line winds as a tornado watch covers areas north of the metro.
- Southwest Michigan recorded confirmed tornado reports near Three Rivers that damaged homes and businesses, while additional rounds of storms are forecast to continue overnight before easing Saturday into a cooler, drier Sunday.