The Storm Prediction Center, a division of NOAA based in Oklahoma, is essential in providing specialized severe weather forecasts, helping keep thousands safe during events like tornado outbreaks ...

The Storm Prediction Center also issued a high risk of severe weather on March 15. There ended up being a reported 73 tornadoes in the Southern U.S. that day. Those tornadoes were among 285 ...

(WTRF) – Showers and storms will be possible on Thursday and the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK has issued a slight risk for stronger storms on Thursday afternoon and evening for portions ...

Online the center boasts of some 500 scientists, engineers, meteorologists and climatologists from NOAA, the University of Oklahoma and state agencies. It specializes in storm prediction and ...

The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has made a fairly large addition to the level 2 risk of severe thunderstorms for this afternoon and tonight. This addition is mostly focused on Lower Michigan.

So here is the Storm Prediction Center’s severe weather forecasts for Wednesday evening. Note the black hatched pattern marks out the area where “significant severe weather” is possible.

According to Dr. Patrick Marsh, warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA's Storm Prediction Center, the "SPC works very hard to internally collaborate the forecast.