And on the seventh day, severe weather isn’t resting – or so it would appear. The Storm Prediction Center has the eastern two-thirds of Kansas and portions of Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan in a moderate risk for severe weather today.
Accordingly, the National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 5 p.m. for 50 counties in Kansas (nearly half the state), and forecasters warn that thunderstorms are expected to “explode” into supercells this afternoon along and east of a line from Salina to Newton. That’s basically along I-135 and through the Flint Hills region….
Large hail and damaging winds are the primary threats, the weather service warns in a statement, “but an isolated tornado can not be ruled out.”