March has started off quite active in the severe weather department with deadly tornadoes occurring yesterday in far southern Michigan & on Thursday evening in Oklahoma. Unfortunately, the weather pattern is likely to remain quite active in terms of severe weather.

For The Rest Of This Afternoon Into This Evening: Severe weather with damaging winds and a few tornadoes are expected throughout the rest of this afternoon into this evening across eastern and southern Ohio, northern West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and western New York State.

Another area of severe weather will be found across southern and eastern Texas, central and northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, much of Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, western and middle Tennessee and western Kentucky. Damaging winds will be the main threat with any severe storms.

The severe weather should subside a bit during Sunday and Monday, but is expected to ramp up again by Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tuesday & Wednesday: An active severe weather pattern is expected during Tuesday and Wednesday from the southern Plains states into the middle and lower Mississippi Valley and the Ohio Valley.

During Tuesday, an area of low pressure is expected to emerge over the central and southern High Plains. To the east of this low pressure, strong southwesterly winds will pull warm, humid and unstable air northward into the central and southern Plains states into parts of the Mississippi Valley.

Severe storms will be a threat Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday evening across central and north Texas, central and eastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, northern Arkansas, much of Missouri, central and southern Illinois and western Indiana. Tornadoes, damaging winds and hail will all be a threat with any severe weather.

Turning to Wednesday, an intensifying low pressure will track from the Great Lakes into Ontario and Quebec. A cold front will stretch southwestward from this low pressure system and push into the Ohio Valley, the Tennessee Valley and parts of the Mississippi Valley.

Severe storms with damaging winds and a few tornadoes will be a threat Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday evening across northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, central and northern Mississippi, western and middle Tennessee, much of Kentucky, southern Indiana, much of Ohio, western Pennsylvania and western New York State.