Severe Weather Threat This Easter Sunday...

Good morning and Happy Easter!Please keep an eye to the sky today if you live in the areas shaded in brown and yellow on the above image, which is today's severe weather outlook via WeatherGuidance.Isolated severe storms can be expected in the brown shaded areas, with scattered activity within the yellow shaded areas.Large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts will be the primary threats across the outlook areas for today.  Although storms...

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Isolated to Scattered Severe Storms Central/Southern Plains Today and Saturday...

This is nothing to get too worked up about, but isolated to scattered severe storms are likely this afternoon and evening and again on Saturday afternoon and evening across portions of the central and southern Plains.For today, the primary threat is located over the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle region, into portions of western Oklahoma, as shown in green on the image above.For Saturday, the Western edge of the primary threat area largely remains in place,...

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A Wet and Stormy April Is Ahead...

Both the U.S. based GFS computer forecast model and the European computer forecast model continue to strongly suggest that a wet, stormy April is instore for much of the central and eastern two-thirds of the U.S., including many areas that are currently in a severe to extreme drought situation.The image below shows the GFS and European model total rainfall forecast, respectively, for the period today through April 4th (scale in inches at the right...

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Heavy Snow Across St. Louis / Surrounding Areas...

It's snowing to beat the band on this late March day across portions of the Midwest.  Snow continues to fall heavily in the St. Louis Metro area this hour:The numbers inside of the blue and purple squares indicate how much snow is on the ground at a given location as of the last 1-2 hours.  Note the 6-8 inch amounts across the Kansas City area, and 2-4 inches so far in St. Louis, but it's still snowing heavily there at this time.  Wichita...

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Scattered Severe Storms Across the South Today and Tonight...

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms will blanket much of the South today and tonight, as shown in green on the image above.At this time, it's difficult to pinpoint one or more areas that are particularly vulnerable, but if I had to try and pin things down futher, I would suggest that residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama (and particularly the southern one-half of those states), southwest Georgia and the Florida panhandle pay particular...

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Damaging Tornado Strikes Yarrawonga, Mulwala Australia Areas...

A large, damaging tornado struck the communities of Yarrawonga and Mulwala in New South Wales, Australia this morning (U.S. time).  This is about 135-140 miles North/Northeast of Melbourne.The above photo is a screen grab taken from this video posted to facebook.Another video of the tornado was recently posted to YouTube (note the power flashes, especially toward the end of the short clip):Stephen Hicks of Yarrawonga took this photo of the tornado...

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First Major Hail Storm of 2013 Strikes the South, Including Jackson, MS...

As feared (but also as expected), the first widespread, damaging hail storm of 2013 struck the South yesterday.  In particular, the Jackson, MS area was hit very hard with widespread hail of 2 inches or more in diameter.  The above image shows the general areas affected by hail damage yesterday.  Red indicates severe, widespread damage.  Orange indicates significant damage, and yellow indicates spotty hail damage.Here are a few...

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Severe Weather Threat Across the South Today...

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms will become numerous by this afternoon across the Southern U.S., especially over the lower Mississippi Valley into the Deep South and portions of the Tennessee Valley region.Thunderstorms are already underway this morning from central Arkansas into the Tennessee Valley, including some storms capable of producing wind damage that are currently moving across the Nashville Metro area:This activity will become...

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