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KEY MESSAGES

Issued at 1111 PM CDT Fri Jun 26 2026

- The heat is on, temperatures will slowly climb heading into the weekend across the region.

- Dangerous heat index readings will begin starting today and continue into the weekend, with heat headlines possible late weekend and into next week.

- Our next chance for precipitation anywhere in the region won't come till the middle of next week.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1111 PM CDT Fri Jun 26 2026

Upper-level ridging will continue to build into the region this weekend and only growing larger and stronger as we head into the start of next week. As a result, the skies will remain dry and the blazing heat will soar on high. The trend overall the past few days is that we have underperformed in terms of afternoon high temperatures, so I have been going on the lower side of guidance. For tonight, I followed the same suit, just not as much, I did bring temperatures down slightly, but still think much of the region will be in the lower to mid 90s. And to be honest, the ambient temperatures are not the main concern for the next few days, that will be the heat index readings. Today we will be borderline Heat Advisory criteria, mainly across portions of deep east Texas, where they will be pushing 105 degrees. Thinking that on Sunday, we could reach high enough across a larger portion of the region to need some sort of heat headline, but even Sunday looks like we will only be flirting with 105 degrees, aside from deep east Texas, where they may break that threshold.

The ridge only grows stronger on Monday and Tuesday, and while we will still see ambient temperatures top out in the 90s both days, heat index values could reach dangerous levels across the region, although they have trended downward slightly this evening. While I was not ready to pull the trigger on any heat headlines quite yet, I think we will need to in the coming days. And while diurnally driven thunderstorms will be possible towards the middle of next week, the heat will remain in place with heat related illness concerns all week. Lastly, we did see some strong wind gusts on Friday across portions of east Texas, much stronger across the the DFW metroplex. Thinking that we will see something similar today across portions of east Texas, we will see widespread gusts of around 20-25 mph and maybe some gusts up to 30 mph, but not widespread enough or certain enough to go with a Wind Advisory. /33/

AVIATION

(06Z TAFS) Issued at 321 AM CDT Sat Jun 27 2026

For the ArkLaTex terminals, VFR overnight with daybreak MVFR cigs expected. These will lift and scatter by lunch with another hot afternoon. S/SW winds continue 10-15G20-30KT during the day and slacking gusts, but keeping sustained 10-15 into the Saturday night. High pressure aloft will build over the middle MS River valley and keep convection suppressed until midweek, when the upper ridge lifts into the OH River Valley and allows the Gulf to spread sea breeze convection northward across I-20. /24/

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT

Issued at 1142 AM CDT Thu Jun 25 2026

Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. /05/

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

SHV 95 77 95 77 / 0 0 0 0 MLU 95 77 95 77 / 0 0 0 0 DEQ 92 76 93 76 / 0 0 0 0 TXK 94 77 95 77 / 0 0 0 0 ELD 93 76 94 77 / 0 0 0 0 TYR 95 77 96 78 / 0 0 0 0 GGG 94 77 95 77 / 0 0 0 0 LFK 95 77 96 77 / 0 0 0 0

SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None.