June 7, 2025 7:35am CDT

- A pattern that shows no signs of relaxing is producing strong to severe thunderstorms through the weekend and well into the upcoming workweek, with only slight variations from day to day.

On Friday, many of the areas that were impacted by severe storms on Thursday saw an additional round of thunderstorms, with Tornado Watches that lasted into the evening. 

During the height of the activity, nearly 5 million residents were underneath Tornado Watches, which included the city of Lubbock, Texas, which was hit hard by tornadic supercells on Thursday.

Lubbock wasn't the only area that saw significant weather - a severe thunderstorm in Arkansas spun up a damaging tornado in Van Buren. Emergency managers reported at least 50 structures sustained damage in a neighborhood.

A tornado-warned storm was caught on a traffic camera as it swept through Fort Smith, Arkansas as the line of storms pushed east Friday morning. 

An apparent tornado was spotted by police Friday morning near Vian, Oklahoma as a tornado-warned storm moved through Sequoyah County.

The storms were strong enough to rip down trees and close local roads in Luther, Oklahoma, according to the fire department.

During the next several days, storms are expected to develop daily in the afternoons and evenings, with leftover energy driving some thunderstorm formation in the overnight hours. The threat is expected to gradually move east as the weekend progresses.

"It's like all of this action has been riding the [Interstate]-40 corridor and the I-40 corridor has been the focus of all the action this entire week," FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin said.

Tropical moisture from the Gulf will enhance severe storms through the weekend, meaning that they will be able to produce lots of rain in a short amount of time. 

Rain rates have the potential to easily exceed 1 inch per hour at times.

Storms Friday morning produced enough rain to cause flash flooding in Ada, Oklahoma.

Although the storms are expected to move at a decent pace, the setup may allow some areas to experience repeated rounds of heavy rain. This "training" effect—where storms repeatedly form over the same locations, could lead to totals exceeding 3 inches, and possibly as high as 5 inches by the time it's all over. 

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