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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.
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.
The Storm Prediction Center issues convective outlooks (AC), consisting of categorical and probabilistic forecasts describing the general threat of severe convective storms over the contiguous United States for the next six to 192 hours (Day 1 through Day 8). These outlooks are labeled and issued by day, and are issued up to five times per day.
Progression of a well-anticipated extremely critical event across the Central Plains on March 6, 2017. This event produced wildfires that burned 1,200,000 acres of land, and killed seven people. An extremely critical fire weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for wildfire events in the United ...
Approximately 60 million people live within the anticipated zone of severe weather through Thursday night. The tally of filtered severe weather incidents, as reported by the Storm Prediction ...
April 12: Bassfield–Seminary–Soso–Moss–Pachuta, Mississippi tornado: EF4 2020: April 12: Topeka–Oak Vale–Carson–Rose Hill, Mississippi tornado: EF3 2020: April 19: Hurricane Creek–Sandy Hook–Pine Burr–Purvis, Mississippi tornado: EF4 2020: April 22: Onalaska–Seven Oaks, Texas tornado: EF3 2020: April 22
The Storm Prediction Center has placed Kansas City, Des Moines, Topeka and Lawrence under an enhanced risk of severe weather. This chart explains the various threat levels when it comes to severe ...
The main severe threats in Kansas City from the storms are large hail and damaging winds, the weather service said. Additional rainfall may aggravate ongoing river flooding or cause flash flooding ...