Widespread severe weather is possible across dozens of states this weekend through Monday, with threats including damaging winds and tornadoes. AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno has the details.
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00:00Well, it's going to be a stormy weekend across the Midwestern part of the U.S. and then early
00:05next week, some storms along the eastern seaboard.
00:09Big upper low off the West Coast of the United States will send pieces of energy first into
00:15California, then into the Plains, and then into the Northeast, and each one of those
00:19pieces will produce some severe weather.
00:22We begin late Saturday, Saturday night across parts of the Central Plains and the Midwest,
00:28cities like Kansas City down toward Oklahoma City and into northern Arkansas.
00:32We're looking at spotty, severe thunderstorms.
00:34I think the big threat's going to be hail, gusty winds, I can see an isolated tornado.
00:39That first piece lifts north as we get into Sunday, but then a stronger piece follows
00:44it, pushing into the southwestern Plains as we get into Sunday, and that's the piece of
00:49energy that rolls eastward into a very hot and steamy air mass.
00:54In fact, the taste of late May into June from Texas toward the Midwest, and that system
01:00runs into that air masses, and we're going to be looking at a big area of at least some
01:04severe weather on Sunday from southern parts of Michigan all the way down toward the Gulf
01:09Coast.
01:10We also have a moderate area, parts of the Midwest, where we think the thunderstorms
01:14or the severe thunderstorms are going to be more numerous.
01:16Damaging winds, flooding rain, hail, and I think there's a few, if not several, tornadoes
01:22on the ground on Sunday.
01:24By the time we get into Monday, everything shifts east, and it's a pretty large area
01:28that extends into the mid-Atlantic and down into north Florida.