Separate risk maps for those hazards are available only for the present day and tomorrow. The map labeled “severe storms” combines risks for hail, high winds and tornadoes. In some cases the Weather Service’s narrower categories are considered for written descriptions. The risk level may be adjusted upwards when the Weather Service predicts a higher likelihood of larger tornadoes or hail. For example, the yellow level (representing some risk) includes the Weather Service categories for “marginal” and “slight” risk of severe storms and excessive rainfall the orange level (moderate risk) includes the category for “enhanced” risk of severe storms and “moderate” risk of excessive rainfall and the red level (high risk) includes the categories for “moderate” risk of severe storms and “high” risk of severe storms and excessive rainfall. Some of these categories have been combined to create a clear, consistent language across multiple weather hazards. The risk levels shown are derived from categories used in the outlooks issued by the National Weather Service, including those for severe weather from the Storm Prediction Center and excessive rainfall from the Weather Prediction Center. This service does not provide alerts about immediate threats or danger you can get those by monitoring local weather reports, listening to a weather radio or having National Weather Service alerts delivered to your mobile phone. Risk outlooks may change throughout the day, sometimes after we have sent you an email, though this page will contain updated information. Our hope is that the emails are useful for your planning and awareness. We aim to send one email per day on days when risks are forecast for one or more of your places.

Us doppler radar this week