The National Weather Service reports that at least two tornadoes touched down simultaneously in northeast Nebraska Monday as severe weather battered the Plains. Storm chasers streamed the twin tornadoes live on The Weather Channel before at least one of them slammed into the farming community of Pilger, Nebraska, about 75 miles northwest of Omaha. At least one person has died and over a dozen people have been critically injured.
Additional severe weather is likely through Monday night, including tornadoes, very high winds, and lage hail.
Here are the details on current and forecast severe weather for the next few days:
Current Radar, Watches, Warnings (Midwest)
Shaded areas underneath any radar returns are watches, and small hollow outlines are warnings. Red shades (outlines) are tornado watches (warnings). Yellow shades (outlines) are severe thunderstorm watches (warnings). Flash flood warnings are shown as green outlines. The links below have radar and watch/warning information for the entire contiguous U.S.
A "particularly dangerous situation" tornado watch includes much of central and northeast Nebraska and a few counties in west-central Iowa until 10 p.m. CDT. In addition, a tornado watch is in effect for much of central and northwest Iowa until midnight CDT; and for southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, and southwest Wisconsin until 1 a.m. CDT Tuesday.
A severe thunderstorm watch includes parts of eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois until 3 a.m. CDT.
Current Radar, Watches, Warnings (Southern U.S.)
Shaded areas underneath any radar returns are watches, and small hollow outlines are warnings. Red shades (outlines) are tornado watches (warnings). Yellow shades (outlines) are severe thunderstorm watches (warnings). Flash flood warnings are shown as green outlines. The links below have radar and watch/warning information for the entire contiguous U.S.
Thunderstorm Forecast: Next 12 Hours
Red shading indicates areas with the best chance of severe thunderstorms; orange shades can expect thunderstorms, but have little or no threat of severe weather. By definition, severe thunderstorms have one of the following: wind gusts of at least 58 mph, hail at least 1 inch in diameter, or a tornado.
Severe thunderstorms will flare up in parts of the Upper Midwest, Missouri Valley and Plains through Monday night. Large hail and damaging straight-line winds are possible from South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin to the Texas Panhandle. The highest threat for tornadoes, some possibly strong, appears to be near the warm front and weak surface low from eastern South Dakota and northeast Nebraska into southern Minnesota and northern Iowa.
Overnight, a complex of thunderstorms with strong winds and heavy rain will track east into the western Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley.
website: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/severe-weather-tracker-page
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