AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports the start of the week expected to be stormy for the central U.S, facing the threat of damaging winds in Kansas and Colorado and the additional risk of tornadoes.
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00:00 It is expected to be a stormy next several days across the central part of
00:04 the U. S. And that's gonna get started right here today in the state of Kansas
00:07 as a pretty high end damaging wind threat likely to evolve as we get later
00:11 this afternoon into the evening hours. Damaging winds gonna be the primary
00:14 concern as we said, but we could see some isolated large hail and
00:19 potentially a couple of tornadoes as well. Drove out here yesterday from
00:22 Colorado, had a few lower end storms. This one near the town of Flagler on
00:26 long I 70 on my trip in this station between the cities of Lyman and the
00:31 Kansas Colorado border. More eye candy for the skies more than anything else.
00:35 Did not see much in the way of severe weather with this. The bigger winds
00:38 came overnight, actually shook me out of bed about three o'clock in the
00:41 morning here in Hayes. You see the winds just battering some of these
00:44 light poles to shake them around pretty good. We saw wind gusts at the airport
00:48 on the southeast side of town at about 47 MPH. I'm on the northwest side of
00:52 town, suspect they were a little bit stronger here, but I did not venture
00:56 out of my room to go find out. But we are expecting a damaging wind threat,
01:00 likely much stronger than 47 MPH throughout the afternoon and evening.
01:04 And we look to reload again tomorrow across basically the Colorado Kansas
01:09 Nebraska area. That will shift east as we get on to Tuesday for what will
01:12 likely be the bigger of the three days. We'll be looking at a large area of
01:16 widespread damaging winds and tornado potential on Tuesday across portions of
01:20 Iowa Illinois down into Missouri. I will be out for all three days tracking
01:24 these storms. So certainly keep it here on the Accuweather network. We will
01:27 keep you up to date on the latest with the severe weather threats as we head
01:30 into early next week as we get around Memorial Day weekend May the
01:34 climatological peak of severe weather season. Mother Nature is certainly
01:37 going to oblige to keep up with the historical averages for sure. Reporting
01:40 from Hayes Kansas for Accuweather, I'm meteorologist Tony Lawback.