Be prepared for three days of severe weather over the central US, which stretches from north to south on Wednesday, bringing the potential for flooding, rain, damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes.
Severe weather threat on two fronts for Wednesday
Beginning on Wednesday through late week, the potential for flooding, damaging winds, very large hail, and tornadoes are all possible through the late week, the Weather Channel reports.
On Wednesday, two storm fronts in the central US will ramp up at the prime time as we move from the late afternoon into the evening.
The first severe weather front stretches from the Southwest into the southern plains, where a Level 2 threat was issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) of the NOAA over extreme western and northwestern Texas, eastern New Mexico, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and southwestern Kansas.
An enhanced Level 3 threat was issued over northeastern Nebraska, Northwestern Iowa, eastern North Dakota, southern and central Minnesota, and northwestern Wisconsin in the north-central US.
A Level 3 Severe Weather Risk is defined as numerous, widespread severe, and intense storms with the possibility of likely significant wind damage, large hail between 1-2 inches, and a few isolated tornadoes.
A Level 2 threat was issued for northeastern Nebraska, northwestern and north-central Iowa, eastern South Dakota, and throughout much of Minnesota and northern Wisconsin.
A Level 2 Severe Weather Risk is defined as scattered, isolated severe storms possible with the possibility of wind damage, large hail between 1-2 inches, and a low threat of 1-2 isolated tornadoes.
Severe weather threat continues into the weekend
On Thursday, the severe weather threat continues in the central US, stretching from Kansas northward across the Canadian border. A significant threat of flash flooding stretches across the north-central US tier from Montana to Minnesota.
A Level 3 severe weather risk for eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, eastern South Dakota, eastern North Dakota, and throughout much of Minnesota.
A Level 2 risk for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Further south, a Level 1 risk for western Oklahoma and western Texas.
On Friday, a cold front moves in, shifting the severe weather threat slightly eastward over Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. A Level 2 severe weather risk for central and northern Oklahoma, throughout much of Missouri, southern and eastern Iowa, western and northwestern Illinois, southeastern Minnesota into southern Wisconsin. A Level 1 risk for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Michigan.
