Storm, flood rain threats return to Plains, middle west, south

Storms threaten Easter plans

Storm has returned to the levels and will flare up again in parts of the middle west and in the south by the holiday weekend with a large hail, harmful wind, a few tornadoes and floods.

Now happens

The following card shows the current radar and all currently applicable national weather service.

Heavy thunderstorms moved through southern Wisconsin hail to the size of the baseballs, accompanied by wind gusts of up to 68 miles per hour in the early Friday morning. The vehicles were allegedly damaged by hail in Edgerton, about 20 miles southeast of Madison.

Wind damage and large hail are the main threats in early Saturday, but an isolated tornado is also possible.

Storm: where and when

– – Easter holiday weekend: From Ohio Valley to Southern Plains on Saturday, then from the east from Texas to the lower and middle Mississippi valleys on Easter Sunday. Harmful thunderstorms, large hail and isolated tornados are possible every day.

The most likely place for storms this weekend is in North and Central Missouri and Südwestinlinois, including Columbia and Jefferson, Missouri. And Quincy, Illinois, on Sunday.

Flood flood threat

– While a few locally heavy rain is possible in the flooded zone of the valley in Ohio and Mississippi, the best chance for heavier total number further west, from Nordexas to Missouri, is shown below.

– In these areas, especially on Friday evening to Saturday evening, at least localized floods of falls, including Dallas-Fort Worth, Tulsa, Oklahoma and St. Louis.

Review of the Thursday evening

A few Superzell thunderstorms that led to West Iowa to the east from Nebraska on Thursday and produced at least three tornados, harmful hail and destructive winds.

The northern Super Zell produced wind gusts for the first time at 82 miles per hour in Dodge County, Nebraska. Hailed to the size of the baseballs, which were driven by these intense winds, damaged the siding of houses in Fremont, Nebraska.

This supercell was on an EF3 tornado in the U -Bahn area of ​​the far northern Omaha near the Douglas line and Washington County around 7 p.m. Damages were reported near Bennington and Fort Calhoun, about 10 to 15 miles north and northwest of downtown Omaha. Although it went north, the Tornado of Omahas Eppley Airfield was seen.

Another tornado, possibly the same, was later spotted about the Missouri river near Crescent, Iowa. The hail of the soft balls (4 inch diameter) was reported east by Council Bluffs west of McClelland, Iowa.

It seemed to generate its first Tornado-East northeast of Lincoln, Nebraska, either in Lancaster or in Cass County. According to the National Weather Service, at least one house near the city of Manley was hit.

The most harmful Tornado seemed to be strike on Thursday evening parts of Foreign and Page Counties in the far southwest of Iowa, which led to a rare Tornado emergency, the Tornado warning of the national weather service. According to reports from the National Weather Service, trees and power poles were demolished on streets and roofs near the city of Essex.

Damage surveys of the national weather service in Omaha will consolidate the actual number and intensity of each tornado.

Why the heavy comeback

– A jet power that dives south into the west and then swings into the levels of the levels will increasingly pull warm and moist air from the golf north.

-This configuration creates stronger weather in spring in the southern and central US US US US configurations. Last week, roughly the opposite pattern has kept the storm at bay since the end of the outbreak at the end of April.

What should you do

– If you are in one of these areas, you have a plan before Storm strikes.

– Get various options for obtaining watches and warnings from the National Weather Service, including the smartphone (the Weather Channel app can attentive), Noaa Weather Radio and Local media. Make sure that your smartphone is fully charged and the NOAA -WEATHER -RODIO batteries are fresh so that you can wake it up when a warning is issued.

– know the safest place where you can quickly get a warning. If you live in a produced house, this safest place can be a storm accommodation for the community.

– Note every warning issued immediately, including those for severe thunderstorms. It doesn’t take a tornado to bring a tree down to your home or vehicle.

– – Never drive into flood. They could be carried away and the street below could have been washed away. After the National Weather Service, 21 of which were killed in vehicles, 33 lives were already requested in 2025.

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Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at Weather.com and has reported national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Apply to him BlueskyPresent X (formerly Twitter) And Facebook.