The agency is responsible for tracking and forecasting severe weather threats across the U.S.

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center is making changes to its severe weather forecasts. Here's what it is trying to pinpoint and ...

For over a decade, the "Marginal to High" risk scale has been the gold standard for severe weather preparedness, but a new addition to the Storm Prediction Center's outlook marks the most significant ...

The changes are to make the maps easier to understand and more precise.

This six-year project aims to better reflect severe weather hazard intensities and their potential impacts to the general public ...

The Storm Prediction Center will be making changes to its convective outlook. The SPC issues severe weather outlooks for the entire country. The new changes will take effect on March 3, 2026.