Midwest and Plains states threatened by severe weather

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Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reports from Sioux City, Iowa, where a severe weather outbreak could bring dangerous storms with the potential to produce a tornado outbreak in the region as of April 28.

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00:00We want to take things over to storm chaser Aaron Jajak who joins us live from Sioux City, Iowa.

00:06He's preparing for the massive severe weather outbreaks set to unfold and how are things

00:10over there? Aaron, what are you preparing for for today?

00:16Yeah guys, we are here in Sioux City, Iowa. We're on the western fringe of where this threat is

00:21going to start today. We've got a dry line off to our west, a big deepening low up in the South

00:27Dakota area and it does look like we are going to be preparing for potentially a regional outbreak,

00:33a severe weather outbreak, potentially a tornado outbreak. We do have conditions that are going

00:38to be in place that could bring us long track supercells capable of long track tornadoes that

00:44are strong to violent. But there are still some questions about storm mode. We're going to be

00:48watching today on the dry line to see if we get some isolated supercells to form there or perhaps

00:54that'll become more of a linear line that moves off to the east and we watch for supercells off

00:58to our east here in Sioux City to form out in this open warm sector that is looking like it's going

01:04to be very potent today and later this afternoon, late afternoon, into the evening hours. Back to you

01:09guys. Yeah, Aaron, really quickly we were talking with our severe weather expert Guy Pearson a short

01:14time ago and he was relaying something I saw. You don't have one piece of energy with this upper low

01:19coming out. It's multiple pieces, which means there's multiple clusters of thunderstorms.

01:25You're going to start in the west and just follow or you're going to try to pick a specific area?

01:34You know, I think my strategy today is going to be actually when we're done with this live,

01:39I'm going to move a little bit east off the dry line just so I can watch potential for the open warm

01:45sector storms to form. I want to make sure I can keep up with those. They don't fire off to my east

01:49and then I'm falling behind and then still be able to watch off back to the west. Watch that

01:54dry line. Watch for the supercells to form in that dry line potentially marching off to the east as it

01:59does look like the area where everything is going to come together is going to be more of that north

02:03central, south central Minnesota area. So a little bit further to the east of where I'm at. But that

02:08being said, we are in the area, the danger zone for storms today here in Sioux City. This is the extreme

02:14western edge of where that threat is. So anywhere from here, points to the east and the central

02:19plains into the Midwest are going to want to make sure they're paying attention to the weather

02:23today and make sure they're ready to enact their safety plans if they find themselves in a tornado

02:26warning today. Back to you guys. Absolutely. Yeah, thank you, Aaron J. Jack, live for us in Sioux City,

02:31Iowa. Busy week ahead, right? A lot of severe weather that we will be tracking as well. We hope

02:35you stay safe out there and we always look forward to seeing the video you capture as well.

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