As we move into the early part of June, AccuWeather's Tony Laubach is monitoring the High Plains for storm threats that could produce damaging winds and hail.
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00:00Greetings, everybody, and welcome to the month of June, the third month in the trifecta of what are the peak severe weather months here in the U.S.
00:07We typically start to see that severe weather threat materialize and start to move its way to the north a little bit, and we start talking about areas of the high plains.
00:16Mainly areas kind of along and north of I-70 are the typical trouble spots as we get into the month of June, and that is where we're going to be targeting here on the first Monday of the month.
00:26We're going to be looking at areas across the Nebraska Panhandle, southeast Wyoming, and clipping into northeast Colorado as well.
00:33Those are going to be the areas we're going to be watching, primarily for hail early on, but a damaging wind threat, particularly as we get later into the evening across portions of western Kansas.
00:42That is going to be an issue.
00:43We could see wind gusts exceeding 70 miles per hour with some of those storms as they move southeast out of the aforementioned areas and then work their way into western Kansas overnight.
00:53As mentioned, June is typically where we start to see the severe weather shift into the high plains and the northern plains.
00:59Also becomes what we call MCS season, the mesoscale convective complexes, what we start to see.
01:04What we're going to see this evening across western Kansas, one of those MCSs, where it's going to bring a damaging wind threat.
01:10Those storms typically form during the afternoon, provide the hail, maybe a tornado risk, and then become that damaging wind threat that linger well into the overnight hours.
01:18So we will start to see a lot of that taking shape here as we get started here this first week of June.
01:22Reporting from North Platte, Nebraska, for AccuWeather, I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach.