A powerful storm system will bring tornadoes and widespread damaging wind gusts to the Midwest on Sunday. For live updates on today's outbreak, go to our live blog at this link.
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Sunday's Forecast
The red shading on the map to the right illustrates that parts of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, lower/middle Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley are among the regions most at risk for widespread damaging winds and tornadoes. This includes Chicago,Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis,Cincinnati, Nashville, Tenn. and Louisville, Ky.
Our Severe Weather Expert Dr. Greg Forbes has issued TOR:CON values as high as 9 for portions of Illinois and Indiana. This means there is a 90 percent chance of a tornado within 50 miles of a location. Find out more about TOR:CON at this link. Some tornadoes could be strong and on the ground for a long distance.
It appears the severe weather outbreak will begin in the morning hours on the western side of our highlighted severe threat area and continue to progress eastward through the afternoon and into Sunday evening.
(TOR:CON: See Your Tornado Risk)
Sunday night into Monday, the thunderstorms will diminish, however strong non-thunderstorm wind gusts may persist through portions of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. This threat of strong, possibly damaging winds could extend as far east as New York City by early Monday morning.
According to the Storm Prediction Center, more than 100 million people are at risk for severe weather Sunday into early Monday morning, however keep in mind that not every single location in the threat area will see severe weather.
Below you will find our live updates ticker with the latest updates and breaking information on this outbreak of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
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