Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Midweek Severe Threat in Plains

Central Plains Radar, Alerts
As is typical of spring, the threat of severe weather is ramping up in the nation's midsection. In fact, we are tracking two weather systems that will spawn severe weather over the next five or six days.
The latest details and updates on the first bout of severe storms from Wednesday through Friday are below. In addition, we are closely monitoring the potential for a more widespread severe threat this weekend starting in the Plains.



Wednesday: Scattered severe storms from southeast South Dakota to parts of Nebraska, Kansas, central/western Oklahoma and western Texas. Lack of rich moisture in the atmosphere means these storms will probably take the form of visually spectacular thunderstorms with high cloud bases in the late afternoon and evening. Some of them will probably be rotating supercells with very large hail and damaging winds; some tornadoes are possible, but with the somewhat dry air near the ground, the tornado threat may be tempered somewhat.



Thursday: Isolated to scattered severe storms from far northeast Texas to parts of the mid-Mississippi Valley. Any that form could spawn large hail, damaging winds and perhaps a tornado or two.




Friday: Lingering threat of a few severe storms in the coastal Southeast.


 http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/severe-weather-tracker-page

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