100 million at risk for severe weather this weekend

AccuWeather

Widespread severe weather is possible across dozens of states this weekend through Monday, with threats including damaging winds and tornadoes. AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno has the details.

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00:00Well, it's going to be a stormy weekend across the Midwestern part of the U.S. and then early

00:05next week, some storms along the eastern seaboard.

00:09Big upper low off the West Coast of the United States will send pieces of energy first into

00:15California, then into the Plains, and then into the Northeast, and each one of those

00:19pieces will produce some severe weather.

00:22We begin late Saturday, Saturday night across parts of the Central Plains and the Midwest,

00:28cities like Kansas City down toward Oklahoma City and into northern Arkansas.

00:32We're looking at spotty, severe thunderstorms.

00:34I think the big threat's going to be hail, gusty winds, I can see an isolated tornado.

00:39That first piece lifts north as we get into Sunday, but then a stronger piece follows

00:44it, pushing into the southwestern Plains as we get into Sunday, and that's the piece of

00:49energy that rolls eastward into a very hot and steamy air mass.

00:54In fact, the taste of late May into June from Texas toward the Midwest, and that system

01:00runs into that air masses, and we're going to be looking at a big area of at least some

01:04severe weather on Sunday from southern parts of Michigan all the way down toward the Gulf

01:09Coast.

01:10We also have a moderate area, parts of the Midwest, where we think the thunderstorms

01:14or the severe thunderstorms are going to be more numerous.

01:16Damaging winds, flooding rain, hail, and I think there's a few, if not several, tornadoes

01:22on the ground on Sunday.

01:24By the time we get into Monday, everything shifts east, and it's a pretty large area

01:28that extends into the mid-Atlantic and down into north Florida.

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