Multiple rounds of storms over the final weekend of March are putting more than half the U.S. population at risk of severe weather.
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00:00We're going to talk about many different obstacles that this storm setup is going to bring to us.
00:05The snow and ice to the north will be a big issue here.
00:07It looks like that severe thunderstorm warning just expired up near the edge of the freezing rain.
00:11But farther south, wildfire danger is a concern here as well.
00:15And we're going to be facing the risk of fire danger before the storms roll in in some areas
00:20because the wind will pick up first.
00:22And then we'll see storms, thunderstorms, break out for the Midwest, the Mississippi Valley,
00:27and down to the Gulf Coast, separated by not that great of a distance
00:31between winter and summer-like weather here, warmth versus the ice and snow.
00:36So here we have the risk of severe thunderstorms beginning to break out.
00:40This is really a Saturday evening, and especially you want to draw your attention to the nighttime.
00:43Some of this will be overnight into eastern Kansas, eastern parts of Oklahoma,
00:49and western parts of Missouri into Saturday night.
00:53Damaging wind and hail are the biggest threats here,
00:55but there could also be some isolated tornado threats too.
00:58Let's take a look at this here as this all evolves.
01:00So the current storm system that's been moving through Texas,
01:03that moves farther east and gets out of our way.
01:06Saturday evening, 8 p.m., here are the first few storms breaking out
01:10up there near Manhattan, Kansas, and west of Topeka.
01:13That becomes more widespread deeper into the night.
01:1611 p.m. central, midnight eastern, eastern Kansas, St. Joseph, Missouri, moving into Kansas City.
01:21Severe weather potential with that, and then that rumbles east,
01:24and that disturbance gets kind of pulled north and sort of washes out here over Ontario.
01:29The second stronger storm then rolls in,
01:31and this one's going to bring a greater risk of severe weather.
01:34On Sunday late afternoon and evening, this will be 10 p.m. central time,
01:38gusty thunderstorms across an area here for the Midwest, the lower Ohio Valley,
01:42into parts of the Ozarks.
01:44Damaging wind, hail, and multiple tornadoes will be a concern with this area.
01:48Some of the greatest threats will be in Louisville, Kentucky, Paducah, Kentucky,
01:51Jackson, Tennessee, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri.