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The Storm Prediction Center issues daily outlooks denoting the risk for severe weather and wildfires for specific regions in the United States. For severe weather, which includes the risk for thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail, and straight-line winds, there are five risk levels indicating the probability for these hazards: marginal, slight, enhanced, moderate, and high.
A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the scale from one to five, a high risk is a level five; thus, high risks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of a major severe weather outbreak.
Meteorological synopsis Supercells moving through eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on April 26. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
April 30, 2024 at 9:12 AM. Powerful thunderstorms are expected to sweep through the Kansas City region Tuesday, bringing the threat of large hail, damaging winds and maybe a tornado or two, the ...
Severe weather, flood risk to ramp up in south-central US this week. A stormy pattern that has been on AccuWeather meteorologists' watchful eye since mid-March will evolve into a heavy rain event ...
AccuWeather meteorologists warn that the severe weather threat includes the potential for tornadoes, large hail, powerful wind gusts and flooding rainfall. Temperatures soared to near-record highs ...
Severe thunderstorm warning (SVR) – A severe thunderstorm is indicated by Doppler weather radar or sighted by Skywarn spotters or other persons, such as local law enforcement. A severe thunderstorm contains large damaging hail of 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter or larger, and/or damaging winds of 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater.
Well ahead of the prime days of severe weather, AccuWeather meteorologists issued high-risk zones for severe weather into Saturday night. These zones could not only be affected by a few tornadoes ...