A large swath of the country, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of America, will face a risk of severe weather over the last weekend of March.
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00:00Our storm system is going to come in two chunks, and the first is going to approach with wind that will still be pretty active.
00:07So there are areas here in eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, a little bit of southeast South Dakota, western Minnesota where there are fire weather watches
00:14and also some parts of the high plains up against the front range in Wyoming and into Colorado, red flag warnings.
00:20So there is some element of fire danger associated with this whole setup.
00:24It's going to precede the bigger deal in the form of some widespread trouble with some, again, we've got snow coming to the north.
00:32You're going to hear more about this with Bernie and Ari in a little bit.
00:35There's a cold side to this storm system that will bring a few inches of snow to Duluth after some ice,
00:40three to six inches of snow expected in the middle of the weekend from this same weekend storm system
00:46and ice on Sunday lingering in northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan as well, by the way.
00:51But behind that, the temperatures are going to be dropping for more of the Rockies,
00:56but as the heat ends there, the severe weather potential ramps up with really a pair of low-pressure systems, simplifying things a bit.
01:04Here you can see the beefier low in the middle of the weekend with strong thunderstorms in many areas from the Ohio River Valley all the way down to the Gulf Coast.
01:12We could take this piecemeal here, and the first storm system is going to be moving through parts of the northern plains here on Friday afternoon.
01:21We're going to track that. That kind of gets caught up to the east and washes out.
01:25A new one follows, and this becomes the potentially more active storm series one and two.
01:31There are three separate storms, but as these all move east, we'll be watching for severe weather potential here into more of the Midwest.
01:39Sunday evening, we're most concerned about this area here from around the lower Ohio Valley into the Mid-South,
01:46where we have a significant risk here, a two out of four risk of severe weather.
01:50So this begins Saturday evening and night as that second storm crosses the plains, isolated tornado risks and damaging wind along with hail.
01:58But the bigger threat comes in Sunday into Sunday night here in the lower Ohio Valley and parts of the Mississippi Valley.
02:03Let's take a quick look at some cities affected by this. Louisville, Paducah, Kentucky, Jackson, Tennessee, Cape Girardeau.
02:07A moderate risk, two out of four on the threat level index here from our team at AccuWeather.