High-risk severe weather threat this week in central US

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Multiple strong tornadoes are possible this week as the central U.S. faces another high-risk severe weather threat. Life-threatening flooding will follow the severe weather into the weekend. AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno has the details.

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00:00No rest for the weary as we have days of severe weather this week.

00:04We're going to once again get severe weather beginning late Tuesday, Tuesday night across

00:10the central plains states from Des Moines toward Dallas and we do have a moderate risk

00:15right around Kansas City toward Oklahoma City.

00:18Now the main threat is going to be late Tuesday, Tuesday night where we're going to see damaging

00:23winds, large hail and probably a few tornadoes on the ground.

00:27We already have a high risk unfortunately posted for Wednesday.

00:31A lot of very warm steamy air will extend from Texas toward the mid-south and in toward

00:38the Ohio Valley.

00:39This is where temperatures are going to have a feel more like let's say mid-May.

00:44Another piece of energy comes into the plains, thunderstorms explode especially late Wednesday,

00:49Wednesday night.

00:50You can see that high risk that we already have highlighted.

00:54All modes of severe weather will occur but we're mostly worried about damaging winds

00:58and at this point I think there is the potential, a strong likelihood of over two dozen tornadoes

01:05with this late Wednesday, Wednesday night.

01:08Once again the severe weather will continue to occur well past sunset.

01:14Now the severe weather will shift a little bit east on Thursday and then we introduce

01:19a new problem late this week and into the upcoming weekend.

01:22That upper low in California moves across Texas and we're going to be looking at rounds

01:27of rain and thunderstorms from the mid-south toward the Tennessee Valley where we could

01:32be looking at life-threatening flash flooding.

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