These inexpensive devices are recommended as the primary warning system for everyone. Don't wait until an emergency siren sounds to start looking for flashlights and other things.
Make sure the entire family knows where to go at home, at work, in school, at the mall or anywhere they might be when the storms strike. Know where you will take shelter. Severe Thunderstorm Watch: Be Prepared! Severe thunderstorms are possible in and near the watch area. Stay informed and be ready to act if a severe thunderstorm warning is issued. Watches are issued by the Storm Prediction Center for counties where severe thunderstorms may occur.
The watch area is typically large, covering numerous counties or even states. Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Take Action! Severe weather has been reported by spotters or indicated by radar.
Warnings indicate imminent danger to life and property. Take shelter in a substantial building. While storms will then continue growing upscale and merge into an MCS towards the evening and continue east through night hours. The attached chart below is the sounding diagram across northern Kansas for this evening. The vertical wind profile indicates the veering winds with height, with a textbook curvature of the hodograph upper right , favoring organized rotating storms.
High instability in the hail-growth region also hints at an enhanced potential for severe hail. Above: Sounding diagram for northern Kansas, Wednesday evening. If an intense MCS does evolve, very damaging winds with locally near hurricane-force gusts, could develop along the leading edge of this cluster as it surges east-southeast along with the nose of a pronounced low-level jet from the south. Above: Storm Prediction Center wind threat forecast. Further south across the southern Plains, isolated severe thunderstorms will also develop across the High Plains into west Texas.
Strong afternoon heating will once again allow surface parcels to reach their convective temperatures by late afternoon. Another potentially dangerous severe weather outbreak is likely also tomorrow, on Thursday, May 27th. It might be upgraded to moderate MDT risk in the future updates of the outlook. Scattered severe thunderstorms are likely on Thursday and Thursday night from parts of the southern Great Plains into the Ozarks and middle Mississippi Valley.
Very large hail, significant severe wind gusts, and several tornadoes are all well possible. Above: Storm Prediction Center severe weather threat forecast Thursday. The main concern then comes again in the afternoon and evening hours further south, across Kansas, Oklahoma, parts of Texas into the Ozarks. Above: Extreme instability across the warm sector from the Texas Panhandle to Oklahoma.
While some people think that flat land is responsible for tornado-prone areas, it actually has more to do with where the land is positioned on the globe. One such place is the U. Great Plains, an area commonly referred to as Tornado Alley. In these areas, warm, moist air traveling north from the Gulf of Mexico and cool, dry air traveling south from the Rocky Mountains can collide to produce tornados.
Obviously, the more severe the tornado, the more damage its able to cause. To gauge how strong the tornado is expected to be, pay attention to its Enhanced Fujita Scale , also called the EF Scale. This assigns tornadoes a rating based on estimated wind speeds and related damage. The EF Scale ranges from zero to five, with a zero having three-second wind gusts of 65 to 85 miles per hour and a five having wind gusts of more than miles per hour.
The higher the rating, the higher the potential for damage to your home or business. A tornado damage expert is one of the most important resources during this time. They can be there to help you with the insurance process and offer valuable support throughout the recovery process. Current Hazards. Local Radar. Climate and Past Weather. Nebraska Tornado Information The chart below shows the annual tornado count in Nebraska since Follow us on Twitter.
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