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Severe weather threat not over yet for the Plains
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10/4/2023
AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Kansas after a day of severe storms on Oct. 3, as the threat for severe storms shifted to other nearby states.
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we want to get an update on the severe weather threat. For that we head out to
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meteorologist Tony Laubach, who's keeping an eye on the storms in central
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Kansas. I can hear that wind blowing out there, Tony. I know it's been a very
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busy day for you on the plains. What have you seen and what do you expect to
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see as the night progresses?
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Mhm.
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Well, Kevin, it is still very busy. You'll probably see a few lightning
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flashes behind me is kind of another line of storms is developing off to the
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west. I'm currently in the town of ST john. This is south of the town of
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Great Bend in central Kansas. So we're northwest of Wichita about an hour and
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a half or so. And we're right now watching the next round of storms to
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develop now, believe it or not, despite the number of storms going on in Kansas
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right now, we currently do not have any warnings in the state of Kansas. It's
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not the state same and elsewhere, especially as you get up further into
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Nebraska. But I want to take you to one of the bigger storms of the day. This
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one that came through the larnit area. Now these storms were moving. I missed
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the summertime, Kevin. These storms normally move at 10 50 miles an hour in
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the summer where they're moving at 60 MPH today. So there hasn't been a lot
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in the way of keeping up with these storms. So this storm moved through the
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larnit area, dropped up to baseball sized hail, even some three inch hail
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reported with that storm. But like most of the storms that we've seen so far
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today, a lot of these really kind of got monstrously severe. And then as
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they cycled down, they never quite cycled back up again. That's why we
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currently are without any severe warnings within the state of Kansas
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right now, as a lot of these storms are currently subsevere, but they
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definitely looked pretty impressive. Is there filled the skies? This was the
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second round of storms I caught. You saw some of the earlier stuff I shot out
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of Oakley, Kansas that had some of the lightning with it with that as well. So
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now we're waiting for the third round of storms to farm along this cold front.
01:46
We do still have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect that goes until 11
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o'clock tonight, central time. So we're not done yet with the severe weather
01:54
threat, but I think we are starting to wind things down a little bit. Tornado
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potential remains low. It's been pretty much the case throughout the day. Today
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it's gonna be a large hail damaging wind threat overnight tonight, and
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then we're gonna reload and do it again tomorrow. Further south, Kevin into
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Texas and Oklahoma. So we're not done yet. The severe weather second season
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well underway. You got it, Tony. It's been very busy in Kansas and Nebraska
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and even Texas today, and that threat will shift a bit to the east and
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southeast tomorrow, including Dallas. There could be travel delays late
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tomorrow in Big D, and I want to show you what's happening with the radar
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picture. There are a lot of severe thunderstorm warnings going on across
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eastern Nebraska, just outside of Lincoln, just northwest of Omaha. These
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storms have a history of producing 60 to 80 mile an hour winds and up to
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baseball sized hail. So that's a serious threat now moving a little bit
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farther south into Kansas, where Tony was just reporting from. We've also
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heard from Reed Timmer earlier in the in Accuweather Prime. He's located west
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of Wichita, and what we're watching here is he's back building thunderstorms in
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this zone right in here. And the question is, will these develop into
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storms that that blossom and eventually become severe? So we've got Reed and
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Tony out there are watching that threat also farther south into Texas. These
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storms have been hail producers with some baseball sized hail. Also a lot of
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flash flood warnings here, folks. We've had 23 inches of rain in just an hour
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or two, so that will give you problems in the Lone Star State or really almost
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any state. So that's the story in Texas.
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