AccuWeather’s expert meteorologists are monitoring a multi-day risk for severe weather that can unleash tornadoes, large hail, damaging wind gusts, and flash flooding in the central and southern Plains, spreading east through the weekend and into next week. AccuWeather For Business customers will benefit from AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy, providing, on average, more advance notice and more accurate forecasts. AccuWeather’s site-specific and actionable warnings, tailored to your needs, enable customers which will allow them to prepare better and make the best decisions likely sooner and faster to protect their people and property. Now is the time to ensure you benefit from AccuWeather’s unique “umbrella of protection” against severe weather threats.
AccuWeather meteorologists identified this area at risk for severe weather as early as last week. Thunderstorms will develop Thursday afternoon from northern Texas north through Oklahoma, Kansas, and far eastern Colorado, then track east Thursday night. Storms may bring large hail, flooding downpours, and damaging wind gusts with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ for winds of 85 mph. A tornado is possible with a stronger storm.
The threat of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes will expand from Texas to Illinois on Friday. AccuWeather meteorologists forecast a moderate risk for severe thunderstorms from eastern Oklahoma north through Iowa. These storms could bring the risk of large hail and tornadoes on Friday. Storms can also produce flooding downpours and damaging wind gusts, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ for winds of 80 mph.
AccuWeather meteorologists expect this upcoming multi-day severe event to continue into the weekend and early next week. A new storm will organize across the Plains this weekend, which can lead to another round of severe weather breaking out Saturday over the central and southern Plains, as well as the Upper Midwest. As this second storm continues to strengthen and pull warm, moist air north from the Gulf of Mexico, the threat for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes will expand across a portion of the Mississippi Valley on Sunday. A severe weather risk may evolve on Monday across portions of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys.
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The benefits of AccuWeather go beyond protecting the lives of employees and customers. Businesses will also reduce their operational costs through better planning and mitigation efforts, allowing you to make better weather-impacted decisions. AccuWeather forecasts will help you make the right decisions sooner and faster, keeping your people safer, saving you money overall, eliminating angst and stress, reducing your risk and liability, reducing losses, and better protecting your reputation.