Days of severe weather to sweep across central US

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A multiday severe weather outbreak is expected to strike the central U.S. this week including in Texas where AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports his chasing plans for this weather event.

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00:00Severe weather and tornadoes have been a daily occurrence since last week.

00:04And with additional severe weather to come in the days ahead,

00:08we are joined by AccuWeather meteorologist Tony Laubach.

00:11He's in Shamrock, Texas, to tell us about his chasing plans for the week ahead.

00:15Good morning, Tony.

00:18Good morning, Ari.

00:20Bernie, yeah, we are talking about a very busy stretch that's really just continued,

00:24seeming like, here for almost over a week.

00:26We started with this here a couple of Thursdays ago in Iowa,

00:29and it's just been daily rounds of severe weather since,

00:32particularly down here in the south.

00:34I know we're a little displaced from the high risk.

00:36Unfortunately, vehicles only go so fast and so far,

00:40so we've kind of had to geographically keep ourselves in a certain area

00:43as we just were not going to make it all the way up into that northern play in time.

00:47But we are still expecting significant severe weather here today,

00:51tomorrow, and the following day as well.

00:53So we will have plenty to keep us busy down in this part of the country.

00:56Yesterday, as we kind of arrived in the Oklahoma City area yesterday afternoon,

01:01limited about how far we could go.

01:03So we were playing a dry line play.

01:05We knew storm chances yesterday were going to be very, very slim.

01:09But if storms did fire, they were going to be significant.

01:12And while we didn't see any storm development down here,

01:14it was a whole different story up across western Nebraska.

01:17We'll show you some of this video from our storm chaser Aaron Jajak yesterday.

01:21This would have been north of North Platte.

01:22I'm not even going to try to pronounce the name of the town up there in Nebraska,

01:25but this was a pretty significant tornado.

01:28This storm produced multiple tornadoes, including some very large tornadoes over the sand hills,

01:34a very open area there in northwest Nebraska.

01:37But when you look at some of the radar signatures, the reports,

01:40this tornadic supercell was producing tornadoes for the better part of five to six hours

01:44well into the evening as that storm worked its way toward the Nebraska-South Dakota line.

01:49Probably going down is one of the more historical tornado events in Nebraska.

01:53So as we said yesterday when we were talking about targeting the dry line,

01:56we said if a storm goes up, it was going to be significant.

01:59That was certainly the case yesterday.

02:01We'll show you the severe weather maps.

02:02We've been showing you to these all morning and show you where we're at.

02:05You've got the high risk that's up in Iowa and Minnesota.

02:07We're further down south.

02:09Notice where that moderate risk is, southwest Oklahoma into northwest Texas.

02:12That is going to be the play we're going to be watching for today.

02:16Again, we're not expecting as widespread of severe weather down here,

02:18but certainly some significant severe weather in areas that have already seen a lot of severe weather over the weekend.

02:24You've seen some of the video over the weekend from Lawton, Oklahoma.

02:27They had some very significant flash flooding.

02:28So areas down here certainly have been impacted the last several days.

02:32The good news for us in terms of logistics, if you shift that map over to Tuesday,

02:37it's pretty much the same area.

02:39And that is basically what is going to be setting up down here for the next couple of days.

02:42That big threat up north is going to shift out into the northeast,

02:46but the threat down in this part of the country is not going to go anywhere through at least Wednesday.

02:51We may see a slight shift over that way.

02:53That might put Dallas in the crosshairs as we get into Wednesday.

02:58But we're certainly going to keep ourselves plenty busy here across the southwest Oklahoma, northwest Texas vicinity.

03:04Again, areas that have seen some significant severe weather over the weekend.

03:08Unfortunately, that pattern is going to continue here as that front is going to stall down here,

03:12providing multiple days of not only that severe weather, but that flash flood threat,

03:16as a lot of these storms will be moving over the same areas,

03:18multiple rounds of which could lead to some of that flooding.

03:21So that is going to be the area we're going to be focusing in on over the next several days.

03:25And it's going to be an active stretch, which is going to continue well into the week.

03:29All right. Tony Law back live from Shamrock, Texas.

03:33No luck of the Irish here over the next few days with the days of severe weather.

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