Watches Posted as Central U.S. Storm Spurs Tornado Risk, Damaging Winds, Flood Threat and Plains Snow

Overview

• SPC issued Tornado Watch 16 until 10:00 p.m. CST for parts of IA, KS, MO and NE, warning of a few tornadoes including the potential for a couple of intense events, hail up to 2 inches and wind gusts to 70 mph.
• SPC issued Severe Thunderstorm Watch 17 until 11:00 p.m. EST for northeast Illinois, northern Indiana and southwest Lower Michigan, citing damaging winds, isolated large hail and the possibility of a tornado or two.
• WPC flagged a flash‑flood threat in the Chicago area into southwest Michigan, with hourly rainfall up to 2 inches and local totals to 4 inches where convection trains.
• WPC highlighted heavy rain from northeast Texas through eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas and central Missouri, with rates up to 2.5 inches per hour and local maxima near 4 inches that could trigger isolated to widely scattered flash flooding.
• SPC reported moderate to heavy snow bands across northeast Colorado into western Nebraska, with snowfall rates potentially exceeding 1 inch per hour under persistent bands.