Texas tornado news and map: State of emergency in Perryton after devastating tornado leaves three dead

Forecasters located in “Tornado Alley” warned of more severe weather on the way this weekend.

The National Weather Service’s office in Norman, Oklahoma, said that the chance of severe conditions had increased for parts of Oklahoma and north Texas from Saturday evening into Sunday morning.

“Large hail and damaging winds remain the primary concern with this activity,” the NWS office tweeted.

The world breached – for a time – 1.5 degrees Celsius this month, scientists confirmed on Thursday, as they issued warnings on how fast humanity is approaching the critical warming limit set by the Paris Agreement.

The first 11 days of June were the hottest on record for this time of year, the European earth observation programme, Copernicus, reported.

While hitting 1.5C is temporary, it is the first time that the limit has been breached in June, Copernicus said.

The world has warmed on average 1.1C since industrial times began, largely due to burning fossil fuels. The ensuing excessive heat had led to a barrage of climate impacts from more powerful storms to prolonged droughts and more frequent wildfires.

Heavy rain, flash flooding and severe thunderstorms were rolling across large parts of the US on Friday.

The National Weather Service warned of downpours and stormy conditions over the Central Plains going into the Juneteenth holiday weekend, with risk of extreme rainfall and severe thunderstorms over parts of eastern Colorado and western Kansas.

A complex of storms was moving up through the Northeast impacting parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York on Friday afternoon, with wind and hail the main hazards.

Severe weather will continue across the Plains, Gulf Coast and the Deep South on Saturday with large hail, damaging gusts and an isolated tornado possible.

Strong cells could gather strength in the central Gulf Coast on Saturday afternoon, causing wind damage and hail in coastal Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle before moving offshore.

Record heat will continue to blanket southern Texas in the coming days with highs in the 100Fs-110Fs, a 15-25 degree anomaly for this time of year over that area, NWS noted.

The threat of fire outbreaks is high in southeastern Arizona and New Mexico this weekend due to very dry and windy conditions.

Another low pressure system moving through the Northeast and Canada’s coastal areas will push wildfire smoke from dozens of wildfires north of the US border over the Midwest, Great Lakes and interior Northeast this weekend.

Multiple tornado warnings were issued in New Jersey on Friday afternoon.

The National Weather Service warned of potential twisters around 1.30pm local time in Ocean and Burlington counties.

Severe thunderstorms were also being reported in the counties of Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Mercer, Middlesex and Monmouth.

A satellite captured the supercell thunderstorm moving over Texas that spawned a devastating tornado.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES16 satellite tracked the huge system on Thursday afternoon.

A tornado hit the small town of Perryton, near the Oklahoma border, around 5.10pm (local time) and left a quarter-mile wide path of destruction, NOAA reported.