NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Forecasters say a severe weather outbreak is possible Tuesday with powerful, long-track tornadoes and enormous hail predicted in some central and southern Plains states. At this point, the late-week/early-weekend rain chances do NOT look to be severe.
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The focus of the severe weather is expected to occur in the areas labeled “slight”, “enhanced” and particularly “moderate”, and it spans from east-central Texas north into southern Nebraska.
Spring severe weather returns Tuesday night with the best chance for severe thunderstorms locally after dark. An approaching area of low pressure and cold front will bring the chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms starting this afternoon and running through tonight. “The event on Wednesday is likely to transition from isolated tornadoes at first to more of a strong wind gust event”.
Storms could continue through Wednesday with a 40 percent chance of precipitation.
The severe thunderstorm was part of a line of storms stretching for several hundred miles.
“All modes of severe weather are likely, including tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds”, according to AccuWeather Assistant Director of Storm Warning Services Andrew Gagnon. This is our highest risk of severe weather we’ve had in northeast Kansas for quite some time so please be weather aware and take this situation seriously. Severe weather season has come early and we’re tracking every raindrop for you! Temperatures will be significantly cooler Tuesday behind the front.
The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Lincoln and Lancaster County at 7:15 p.m.
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From 2010 to 2015, April 24-30 has seen at least one killer tornado in three of those six years, according to data kept by the Tornado History Project. That threat of tornadoes will also decrease as the day wears into the night time hours.
