More severe weather for OK, KS, NE, TX, and IA

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More Severe Weather For Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, And Iowa; Main Threat Will Be Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Floods And Damaging Winds
June 9, 2013


UNITED STATES – Instability is increasing across the central and southern Plains, setting the stage for severe weather.

The combination of a dip in the jet stream and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will act to spark severe thunderstorms from Nebraska and western Iowa, southwestward through Kansas and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles this afternoon.



Any of these thunderstorms will be capable of producing torrential downpours, damaging wind gusts in excess of 50 mph and hail.

While damaging winds will be the main threat with any severe thunderstorms, Senior Vice President of AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions and tornado expert Mike Smith notes that “there is a threat for a tornado or two on an Omaha-to-Dodge City axis in the late afternoon and early evening of Saturday.”

However, Smith also emphasized that the tornado threat is lower compared to last week’s tornado outbreak, which spawned the widest tornado on record near El Reno, Okla.

Other cities in the path of the violent thunderstorms this afternoon include Grand Island and Lincoln, Neb., Russell, Kan., and Lubbock, Texas.

The severe weather will expand to the south and east through the overnight hours. Kansas City, Mo., Topeka and Wichita, Kan., will be at risk during the late afternoon and evening hours. The danger will reach Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Okla., late at night.

Following devastating severe weather over the past few weeks, the return of violent thunderstorms is the last thing residents of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area want to hear.



Severe weather parameters will be weaker farther north, but ample moisture surrounding a slow-moving center of low pressure will create thunderstorms with a high potential to produce heavy downpours and flash flooding.

This threat will be widespread across the Dakotas, southern Minnesota and Iowa through tonight, including the cities of Aberdeen and Sioux Falls, S.D., and Des Moines, Iowa.

Showers and a couple of thunderstorms will persist across Minnesota, Iowa and the eastern Dakotas on Sunday, while the severe weather danger centers on Chicago and St. Louis. – AccuWeather.

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