Severe thunderstorms will be on the move every day until Easter Sunday, primarily from Texas to the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region. AccuWeather meteorologists warn that certain locations may experience severe weather for two or three days in a succession.
The storms will be sparked by a high pressure system forming near Florida, as well as a conflict between warm air to the southeast and cold air to the northwest. The high pressure region will cause this zone to stall over the Central States, but further to the northwest than earlier this month.
The atmosphere will reload on Friday, and after a morning calm, storms will erupt in the afternoon, forming groups in a 1,200-mile swath from west-central Texas to the centre of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.
As with Thursday night, the heaviest storms will be capable of producing all types of severe weather, from high winds and heavy hail to a few tornadoes on Friday.
Saturday
On Saturday, heavy thunderstorms are likely to spread from west-central Texas to sections of the Midwest. The storms’ northern edge will most likely be limited to the Ohio valley.
The strongest storms will bring huge hail, severe winds, and a few tornadoes.
As a storm system builds along the front and moves eastward on Easter Sunday, the severe weather will worsen. More strong storms are expected than in prior days.
It is probable that a huge area of severe thunderstorms will emerge, with high winds being the most dangerous. Before the storms form a curving line, individual severe thunderstorms may produce destructive hail and tornadoes from northeastern Texas to eastern Kansas and Missouri.
Because of the repeating nature of the downpours from north-central Texas to central Illinois, there will be an increasing risk of flash flooding, which could lead to river flooding for Mississippi River tributaries, but primarily well northwest of the zone where the deluge in the Tennessee and Ohio valleys occurred earlier in the month.
