The main threats are large hail and damage wind gusts.
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On Wednesday, tornadoes were reported in Nebraska, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, the Storm Prediction Center said.
“We’ve never been hit by a tornado here in town, amazingly”, Eischen said.
Heavy rainfall from a night of storms has caused flooding in two southern Nebraska cities, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and led officials to cancel some school classes. “It was always entirely possible there would be tornadoes and it was possible there won’t be”.
Severe weather reports traced around the northwest corner of the state, downing power lines in Benton County and damaging a school roof in Washington County, according to the weather service.
A tornado watch is in effect until midnight for much of the KERA listening area – that includes Tarrant, Denton, Collin, Dallas and Rockwall counties.
Forecasters said last week that the nation could have seen significant tornadoes Tuesday, but that conditions weren’t right for the biggest storms.
“This is a particularly unsafe situation”, the Storm Prediction Center alerted in red type in an afternoon advisory.
Thunderstorms bearing hail as big as grapefruit and winds approaching hurricane strength lashed portions of the Great Plains on Tuesday, but arrived without the destructive tornadoes that many had anxious about for days.
Many areas of the state were under flood watches and warnings on Wednesday morning.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Chad Omitt said that the area between Manhattan and Topeka was experiencing 50-year rainfall amounts.
“We’re not really anticipating a lot of rain showers or thunderstorms to develop”, said Jeff Hood, a weather service meteorologist in Little Rock.
(CNN) – A rash of severe weather tore through the central United States, destroying houses and ripping large trees out of the ground.
Forecasters warn the storms could form rapidly in the next few hours as they roll from west to east.
The storm was set to remain in parts of the plains while expanding into the Mississippi Valley and parts of the South into Wednesday, according to forecasters.
As of Tuesday night, computer models were indicating that the storms would likely dissipate as they enter St. Francois County.
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Susan Goodwyn holds large pieces of hail in her hand in Wichita, Kan., after a storm passed through the region Tuesday.
