Severe weather and flooding rain will continue tonight, moving through the Midwest on Tuesday and Wednesday, crossing the Great Lakes into the Southern Plains.
At least one verified tornado has hit southern Minnesota, including Winnebago.
On Monday afternoon, baseball-sized hail was observed in Rock County, Minnesota, in the state’s far southwest corner.
Severe weather is possible throughout a wide area from the eastern Great Lakes to the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, as well as Oklahoma and northern Texas. Wind damage, hail, and an isolated tornado threat may develop in these locations, extending from Cleveland and Pittsburgh to Louisville, Kentucky, and Oklahoma City.
Heavy rain is increasingly becoming a major worry in the Southern Plains. Flash flooding is possible from northwest Texas through central Oklahoma, southeast Kansas, and southwest Missouri, including the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
The frontal system that is bringing this round of extreme weather will become stranded over the Southern Plains by midweek. This might result in more severe thunderstorms in sections of North Texas and the Ark-La-Tex on Wednesday, including Dallas-Fort Worth. Details are still unclear, so check back for updates.
However, heavy rain is almost probable to contribute to flash floods from North Texas into central and eastern Oklahoma, much of Arkansas, central and southern Missouri, and southeast Kansas.
You should know where you will go if a severe thunderstorm or tornado warning is issued, whether you live in a house, an apartment, a manufactured home, work, or drive.
An external siren is not a dependable way to alert you inside your home or rouse you up at night. Tornado sirens are intended to warn persons outside to seek cover. You might live too far from the nearest siren to hear it.
