MIDWEST & TEXAS - Strong weather is forecasted beginning today for Texas and the greater Midwest region, including large hail, rain, high-speed winds, and a tornado warning.
"It's certainly possible we could see several tornadoes during the day on Tuesday," Bill Bunting, Chief of Operations at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, told CNN. "Some of them do have the potential to be strong -- an EF-2 or greater, which is winds over 110 mph, strong enough to cause structural damage to well-built homes."
CNN Meteorologist Allison Chinchar advised that this could amount to a “tornado outbreak” in multiple states, with some twisters on the ground for 30 minutes or longer.
The areas on alert for damaging weather, including baseball-sized hail, winds up to 70 miles per hour, and the possibility of a tornado, are:
- Plains states, beginning in central and eastern Nebraska
- Central and eastern Kansas
- Much of Oklahoma
- Northern and central Texas
The tornado threat is forecasted to begin this afternoon, according to the report, with a possible peak later this evening, bringing some severe weather that is forecasted to last through the night.
Though it looks as though South Texas shouldn’t see any extreme patterns, Dallas, Waco, Austin, and San Antonio, Texas are included in the forecast area.
Once the initial peak passes, Weather Channel reports that the system looks to advance East on Thursday, with more widespread storms across Texas Thursday night.
It is still too soon to tell how strong the storm will be later in the week, and whether or not the tornado threat will remain. Rain and large hail, however, are a more solidified expectation going into Friday.
AndNowUKnow will continue to track the weather pattern and any potential influences it may have as more details become known.
