Severe storms likely in Tulsa metro Tuesday

TULSA — The Tulsa metro will likely see high wind, rain, and possibly hail as a strong line of storms pushes across the area from north to south Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service Office in Tulsa.

NWS Meteorologist Craig Sullivan tells KRMG that the outlook from the Storm Prediction Center in Norman has much of eastern Oklahoma in the “enhanced risk” category for storms on Tuesday.

“It looks like we will have a fair amount of showers and thunderstorms, pretty widespread coverage developing during the afternoon tomorrow, and then moving pretty quickly off to the south and east,” Sullivan said Monday afternoon.

The tornado risk is slight, but not zero.

“The main threat looks like it's gonna be hail, which could be some pretty large hail, some maybe even up to as big as baseball-sized with some of the storms, and then evolving maybe more into a damaging wind threat during the late afternoon and evening as it pushes south,” Sullivan said.

The KRMG Storm Center will closely track the storms as they move into the area, which should happen in the late afternoon.