Posted on 04/24/2007 11:09:56 AM PDT by sully777
An active weather day is in store for the Central and Southern Plains eastward to the Mississippi River today. An outbreak of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes, including large and long-tracked tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds is expected to begin later this afternoon in portions of the Great Plains and move eastward as the day progresses. Thunderstorms are expected to develop over parts of Kansas and southern Nebraska this afternoon, with more storms developing late this afternoon and this evening over Oklahoma and Texas. These storms will move eastward into western Missouri, western Arkansas, and western Louisiana by tonight, with additional storms possible late in central and eastern Missouri.
Farther to the north over much of Nebraska eastward into Iowa and northern Illinois, heavy rain with localized flooding will be possible. Flood watches have been posted over parts of central Nebraska due to the expectation of heavy rains today. Heavy rain could reach Chicago by sunrise on Wednesday.
All of this will be moving to the east into the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys on Wednesday, bringing a chance of heavy rain to the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley and thunderstorms across the Mid-South and Tennessee Valley as well.
In Colorado and Wyoming, this same storm system will bring a chance of heavy snow to the Rockies and Front Range, particularly on eastern slopes above 6000 feet. Denver may also see some snow from this system before precipitation winds down.
In addition, windy conditions are expected from Mexico to Canada in the Plains and Rockies, with extremely dry air in New Mexico and West Texas aiding in bringing a higher fire danger to these areas, with fire weather watches and red flag warnings in effect today.
If you live in the Plains or Mississippi Valley, pay close attention to the weather today: especially this afternoon, evening, and into tonight.
my sister in Moore ok sent me pics of those towns.heartbreaking
Thank you. :-)
If I amused one person with my silly but truthful picture, then my job is done here. ;-)
damn, you're neighbors with my ex wife .... Watauga?
Thanks for a heads up on location. Tornado lines usually coming out of Lawton go to OKCity then up 44 to Tulsa
Whatever N00b .... we're about to get hit here in Texas and Okla. It's pretty damned important to us.
You sister lives in Moore? Was she there in 1999 for that F5? It was clocked at 318 mph...the most powerful tornado ever recorded. We haven’t had an F5 since...been almost eight years...we’re long overdue.
big line going through the Oklahoma City vicinity now
this is going to be very embarassing if she IS your ex-wife
http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/
LOL .... wouldn't it though?
it torn her farm to smitherines but the story of a little girl..well it’s way to painful to type..sorry
starts up the popcorn popper...just in case! LOL
That was my first thought as well. :P
PLEASE—stop borrowing trouble!!! Yikes!
April 25, 1975 Lock and Dam #14 at Le Claire, Iowa. It snowed so hard that day we had to shut down operations on the riverboat I was working on at the time to go to town to purchase overcoats for the crew. It appears that "global warming" I keep hearing about sure is taking it's sweet time getting here.
Got a foot of the white stuff here in the last 8 hours. This is supposed to go on for another 12 to 18 hours.
YIKES! it’s springtime in the Rockies.
Carolyn
Carolyn
I thought it looked like Pueblo was getting hammered. Yikes!
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