Severe weather will be in the forecast for the three days. The central US and South will be in the crosshairs Monday through Wednesday with an expansive risk of flash flooding, damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes.
Here is a look ahead at the 3-day forecast by the National Weather Service (NWS).
Monday forecast: Hail, wind gusts, isolated tornado and flooding
Severe weather over the essential US could bring damaging winds, hail, and an isolated tornado, the Weather Channel reports.
A Level 2 severe weather risk is over Eastern New Mexico into much of western, southern, and central Texas as well as the northern region of the state, according to the latest updates from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
However, the larger threat could be heavy rain on two fronts on Wednesday which bring the possibility of flash flooding.
The first front is over the central US and stretches from southern Texas through the center of the state into central Oklahoma and into South-Central Kansas. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flood warning for South-Central and central Kansas on Wednesday.
The second front that could bring flash flooding is in the South around the Gulf of Mexico, affecting the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. The threat of heavy rain extends into southern and eastern Alabama; western, central, northeastern, and northern Georgia; central and western South Carolina; Eastern Tennessee; western, central, and northwestern North Carolina; southeastern Kentucky; southern West Virginia and southern Virginia.
Thunderstorms over the central US will stretch straight up the middle of the essential US from Texas into the Dakotas and northwestern Minnesota, as well as over the South and Southeast from Louisiana to the Atlantic.
Tuesday: Severe weather threat, more of the same
On Tuesday, more heavy rain through the essential US, spreading slightly eastward. A Level 2 severe weather risk is mainly over central and northeastern Texas into southern Oklahoma.
States looking at heavy rain with the potential of flash flooding on Tuesday will be central and eastern Texas, northeastern Louisiana, central and eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, Eastern Kansas, Missouri, western Tennessee, southwestern Kentucky, southeastern Nebraska, and southern Iowa.
Thunderstorms will hover over the South and southeast, into parts of the upper Midwest and lower Ohio Valley.
Wednesday: More severe weather, flooding rain
As the storm front pushes east, the severe weather risk will move into southeastern Texas and Southwestern Louisiana on Wednesday at a Level 2 severe weather risk, according to the SPC.
Heavy rain with potential flash flooding is expected over Eastern taxes across Louisiana into southern and eastern Arkansas, Mississippi, Northwestern Alabama, western and central Tennessee, southeastern Missouri, southwestern Kentucky, and southern Illinois.
Thunderstorms will extend from the South into the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes areas.
