Severe storms and flooding threat midweek

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AccuWeather Severe Weather Expert Guy Pearson explain what factors are setting up for severe storms this week.

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00:00I want to bring in our severe weather expert, meteorologist Guy Pearson from our Severe

00:04Weather Center in Wichita, Kansas.

00:07Kansas City, one of the cities that will be impacted by severe weather over the next couple

00:14of days.

00:15And you know Guy, much cooler air across the plains right now and the Midwest, but as we

00:20head into tomorrow, you could already see when you look at the high temperatures tomorrow

00:26that the warm air quickly returns in cities like Wichita and Dallas where we get into

00:32the 80 degree mark and then that sets us up for later tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow

00:38night.

00:39Yep, it certainly does.

00:43Good morning everybody.

00:44You know, certainly over the weekend we had the cold front come through, we went from

00:47a big drop Saturday to Sunday yesterday.

00:50Still a little cool today, but as you mentioned, we're right back in the 70s tomorrow bringing

00:54that warmth back up and as far as the severe weather threat for tomorrow goes, we're looking

00:59for some severe weather extending all the way across from Omaha to Des Moines all the

01:05way back through Dallas.

01:07And then we do have a moderate risk area outlined for tomorrow across portions of eastern Oklahoma,

01:15eastern Kansas, basically from about Kansas City through Wichita, Oklahoma City down to

01:19about the Red River, so Oklahoma-Texas border.

01:22And we're looking at, you know, isolated tornadoes, wind gusts of 60-70 and large hail with some

01:28of those storms.

01:29You know, to this one, this is a sneaky severe weather area because, you know what, the air

01:34may not be unstable enough, Guy, but there is going to be a tremendous amount of wind

01:40energy going through this area late in the day.

01:44Yep, it's one of those pieces of energy that's going to be rotating out and through the area

01:50and that's going to be enough then to really, you know, kick off some of those, you know,

01:55more intense severe type thunderstorms that, you know, are going to be able to produce

01:59some of the things that we've talked about here.

02:01You know, just like last week, Guy, we were talking about these high temperatures that

02:05we're going to be seeing.

02:06Take a look at Wednesday.

02:07I mean, these are temperatures that we would normally see in mid-April, mid-May I should

02:12say.

02:13Temperatures getting up to near 80 degrees all the way from Louisville toward to Houston

02:18and then that next piece of energy rotates through in a very unstable air mass.

02:25Yep, it certainly does.

02:29That increase, we have that nice strong southerly flow tomorrow, which then continues into Wednesday

02:34bringing all that warmth and moisture with it farther north.

02:38You couple in that better dynamics for Wednesday and then kicking out across, you know, really

02:44from what's going to be the Midwest all the way back into northeast Texas.

02:49Now, this looks like a much bigger threat area from damaging winds and hail and also

02:54while we're talking about maybe a handful of tornadoes on Tuesday, this looks like this

02:59could be quite a few tornadoes that we're expecting late Wednesday, Guy.

03:06Yep, that is the case.

03:08You know, we've got the whole system comes a little bit better together.

03:12You have more moisture, certainly more heat and then so we're looking at a large area

03:18of moderate risk for severe weather from Chicago to Detroit all the way back through far northeastern

03:25Texas and then we even have a high risk in this particular instance that's ranging basically

03:31from Evansville, Illinois back through Memphis, Tennessee, northeast Arkansas.

03:35So some of these areas that have had been hit with severe weather over the last week

03:40and a half are going to continue to get hit this week, unfortunately, with more severe

03:44weather.

03:45All right, Guy Pearson, our severe weather expert from our Severe Weather Center in Wichita,

03:50Kansas.

03:51Guy, thanks for joining us here.

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