Active Severe Weather across the South Saturday…Flooding and Tornadoes Possible

A storm will develop across the South this weekend. Severe weather will break out late Friday and continue into Saturday evening. Compared to the event Today, this event wlll be far more active with the potential for tornadoes and flooding rains. Storms will develop along the warm front first late Friday and expand into to the cold front Saturday. Friday night could be quite active with supercells with large hail, heavy rains and tornadoes. A squall line will develop by Saturday morning that will cut across Mississippi and Alabama with damaging winds, hail and flooding rains. This could become an outbreak for tornadoes given the dynamics.

Severe Weather Starts in the Plains and Heads to the Tennessee Valley

A storm coming out of the Rockies will first produce a few severe storms across Minnesota today then more widespread severe storms will develop in Kansas Tuesday and spread east Wednesday and Thursday. I think in this case the primary threats will be damaging winds and large hail. One could say based on the rotation tracks that a tornado threat exists across central Kansas Tuesday evening. A solid line of storms may from by Wednesday which would mean more of a wind damage event moving across the lower Mississippi Valley.

The event this evening will also be just wind and hail but I am sure some of the storm chasers may see a wall cloud or two associated with the storms. Dew points are just not high enough for tornado development.