Storms sweeping through the central US lead to tornado risks

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Storms pushing across the middle of the U.S. on Nov. 18 led to soaking rain and tornado threats in some areas.

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00:00Now we continue to track severe weather that's threatened much of the nation's midsection

00:05this Monday. That's tonight's top story, and we saw a powerful line of storms push through

00:10the south-central U.S. earlier today, and Jeff, it's been pretty consistent with the tornado

00:16warnings. It has been, yeah, and we've had a cluster of them early this morning as well in

00:20southwest Oklahoma, and meanwhile in the north-central U.S., look for a major storm to take

00:25shape around midweek. Behind the first wave, there will be a new one that forms near the Great Lakes,

00:29and that is going to spell snow and much-needed rain. More on that in just a moment.

00:35With that, we'll take you outside. Let's check out Kansas City, Missouri, where it was a wet

00:42earlier when the sun was up. I'm sure it's still a little damp outside in Kansas City, Jeff.

00:47Yeah, it still is, and a lot of the steadiest rain is kind of pooling east, but we have some

00:51residual showers backing into the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro once again. So again,

00:56it's going to be kind of an intermittent setup here this evening with some lingering sprinkles,

01:00drizzle, and the occasional rain shower, but the steadiest rain is moving through parts of Iowa,

01:04central Missouri, mid-Missouri there, and down into areas along Interstate 44. Little Rock,

01:09the squall line has just moved through your area, but I'm a little more interested in what's going

01:14on down near the south side of the Toledo Bend Reservoir once again, right over the dam and points

01:19east. Here we have an ongoing tornado warning, so as we hop in here, Lake Charles radar view,

01:26as we isolate that data just from Lake Charles, we have an area of rotation that is fairly

01:31significant with the outbound red showing where there's strong movement away from the radar site

01:36and the green is inbound. There is, it's worth mentioning, there's a little bit of a separation

01:41here. There's a little neutral zone in gray in between, so this rotation is, you might say,

01:46broad. There's a little bit of a separation between the inbound and the outbound, but

01:50regardless, right over south Toledo Bend and moving into Haddons and Anacoco on the Louisiana

01:57side, we are facing an ongoing tornado threat, so a little sliver of extreme northeast Newton

02:02County of Texas and then the bulk of the crowd here in northwestern Vernon Parish of Louisiana

02:07under a tornado warning until 6 30 central standard time. That's the biggest, most imminent

02:13severe weather threat on the map here in the nation right now, and you can see some of the

02:17reports we've had earlier. There was earlier an oak tree blown over there in Allen, Texas,

02:22metal building destroyed there in Whitney, Texas, and also some roof damage and sheet metal damage,

02:29at least indicators of the wind that we faced earlier in the Dallas area and down I-35 into

02:33Waco as well. There are several counties still, especially in Louisiana and a little bit of east

02:39Texas, under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. central standard time. The greatest risk is kind of

02:45favoring the Louisiana side of the state line moving forward, and here you can see the some

02:50risks. Damaging wind, hail, and the risk is there still for an isolated tornado. Tuesday, well, a lot

02:56of us turn quieter here in the south central, but the rain is on the move through parts of the Gulf

03:00Coast, and as tropical rainstorms, Sarah, the former tropical storm, works alongside some of

03:05that moisture. We're going to see some heavy rain along with the front there into Nashville, Tennessee

03:10as well. There you can see the future radar carrying that eastward, pressing pause at 2 p.m.,

03:16and, you know, before we go too much further, Brie, I know we're going to dig into this with

03:19the big three. So, into the north central U.S., we've got some rain, we've got some snow, and yeah,

03:25we have a little bit of both. Jeff, we kind of get served a little bit of everything on the platter

03:30where we start this week early with that soaking rain still, and that could still lead to that

03:35flash flood threat for areas further north, and for some, it's going to be the first snow of the

03:42season. That does come with its yays and nays. Yays, because this area probably would like to

03:50see some cooler air, some more snow. You know, last winter season was abnormally warm. We just

03:56didn't see the typical numbers that we were used to across these areas because it was just so warm,

04:03and we'll see some snowflakes, but that could cause some problems on the roadways, heads up,

04:08especially I-29, I-94. If you're on those major interstates, you could run into some problems,

04:15especially as these winds start to pick up. Power outages, not out of the question.

04:20Then, by tonight, we're going to be dropping down to the 40s.

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