You can see the line of storms from the DFW Metroplex all the way up through Little Rock and into southern Illinois. That line will drive south overnight. By daybreak Wednesday morning, it will be down along the Gulf Coast from Houston over to New Orleans.

This is the bigger threat we’re expecting tonight, and we may need to launch the Big Bad Weather Blog overnight to keep you updated as it passes.

Another round of Big Bad storms looks likely from Oklahoma into the Gulf Coast states Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning.

Storms should initially fire up in East Texas and Oklahoma late this afternoon into the early evening.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued an Enhanced Risk for storms today from Central Oklahoma, down to Central Texas and over to the ArkLaMiss region. There is a threat for tornados, damaging winds, and large hail.

Widespread damaging winds and some strong tornadoes are likely across the South

If you caught our Big Bad Weather Blog Prep Talk on Facebook earlier today, you heard us talking about some storms we were expecting to fire up in Southwest Texas this evening. Well, the radar image above shows they’ve done just that.

An outbreak of Big Bad storms looking likely Easter Sunday

There are some showers and small thunderstorms traveling across Texas and Louisiana this afternoon and evening. While we do expect these rains to continue, we aren’t expecting an outbreak of Big Bad Storms.

This is the HRRR model’s simulated radar output for right around noon on Saturday. You’ll notice a line of storms from just east of San Antonio through Ft. Smith Arkansas. This line will move eastward through the day.

We are getting a brief break from the rain in the South Central U.S. We’re not expecting any rain in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas or Oklahoma today, and only a few showers tomorrow.

We’re watching an overnight chance of storms that could become big bad storms

We are seeing some rain from East Texas over into Mississippi and Alabama this morning. Fortunately, it’s just rain. We’ll look for more scattered showers this morning and afternoon, dying down for those areas this evening.

Fortunately, this rain is not creating Big Bad Storms to go along with them. It’s basically just rain.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Tornado Watch for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas through 10:00 tonight. This is part of a larger system that’s slowly moving through the Southern Plains and into the Mississippi River Valley this evening.

The risk for Big Bad Storms has shifted further north today. The Storm Prediction Center has put out an Enhanced Risk for parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky and Indiana.

Storms are expected to fire up from Lubbock to Abilene and then track northeast this afternoon.

We’re already seeing some Big Bad storms across West Texas this afternoon with more to come this evening.

We are looking at three days of potentially bad weather in Texas, Oklahoma, and then Louisiana and Arkansas as an upper level system travels northeast this week. Let’s start with today.

There are a couple of chances for Big Bad Storms this week, starting in West Texas. The Storm Prediction Center says there’s a Slight Risk tomorrow and Wednesday from the Big Bend to the Panhandle. The image above is from the NAM model for Tuesday evening, and you can see all of the storms firing up in a squall line into Oklahoma.