Tens of millions of Americans stretching from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Baltimore could face strong thunderstorms tonight through Wednesday, with tornadoes possible in a few states
Tens of millions of Americans stretching from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Baltimore could face strong thunderstorms tonight through Wednesday, with tornadoes possible in some states. A large storm system hitting much of the central U.S. over the next few days is expected to bring severe thunderstorms to Kansas and Nebraska on Monday evening, the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center said.
After moving through the Great Plains, NWS says the the storm system could move into the Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley areas on Tuesday and bring “severe weather and isolated flash flooding.' Southern Iowa, Northern Missouri and Central Illinois face the largest threat of 'significant hail and tornado potential,' on Tuesday the agency said.
May is generally considered the midpoint of tornado season, said Harold Brooks, a tornado scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Brooks said late April to the middle of May is when the strongest tornadoes that cause fatalities usually appear. “There's a lot of uncertainty in those estimates,” Brooks added, because of how much each tornado season varies year to year. Some scientists believe that over the past few decades, tornadoes in the U.S.
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