Overview
- The Storm Prediction Center issued an enhanced risk Monday for much of Illinois and neighboring states, placing nearly 40 million people under a level 3 of 5 threat for tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds.
- Forecasts call for an early round of supercells capable of violent EF3-plus tornadoes and baseball-size hail, followed by an evening transition to a fast-moving line that can produce widespread destructive winds with embedded tornadoes.
- Meteorologists highlight a corridor from central and southern Missouri into central Illinois as most favorable for the strongest storms, with morning storms likely to shape how intense the afternoon tornado risk becomes.
- The same system is dumping heavy rain across parts of Kansas and Missouri, where 3 to 5 inches could trigger flash flooding on already saturated ground.
- Following days of severe weather, a preliminary EF-4 tornado struck Enid, Oklahoma with about 10 injuries and no deaths, and deadly weekend tornadoes in north Texas killed at least two people.