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Severe Weather for the Plains and Mid-West USA

Xinyta

Xinyta

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Everyone today living in Missouri, Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana need to be on the look out.

Later on today, a severe weather outbreak is expected for all the listed states. High winds, hail, lightning, and tornados are expected. Some areas could see tornado strength at EF2 or stronger.

This is followed by another round of severe weather in the plains starting Sunday. Oklahoma, Kansas, areas of South Dakota, and northern Texas.

Monday will be some of the same states with Missouri now in the line of fire too.

Tuesday, will be alot of the same states again with Illinois and western Kentucky and Tennessee.

This week and next will be very active. So stay safe and be ready.
 
"Batten down the hatches" is what we say when we're in the way of tornadic weather. That means to secure all outdoor furniture, hanging plants and anything that can blow away and become a missile.

Yall stay alert and safe!
 
Xinyta said:
Everyone today living in Missouri, Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana need to be on the look out.

Later on today, a severe weather outbreak is expected for all the listed states. High winds, hail, lightning, and tornados are expected. Some areas could see tornado strength at EF2 or stronger.

This is followed by another round of severe weather in the plains starting Sunday. Oklahoma, Kansas, areas of South Dakota, and northern Texas.

Monday will be some of the same states with Missouri now in the line of fire too.

Tuesday, will be alot of the same states again with Illinois and western Kentucky and Tennessee.

This week and next will be very active. So stay safe and be ready.
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With our electric service going through forested areas with trees tall enough to sever lines if they fall, I am prepared with a whole house generator and enough propane for several days. Pretty necessary for us when we are all electric. Two years ago there was a nearby lightning strike that fried our well pump controller, but the well services around me are all prepared for that and it was fixed in a couple of days.

The western sky is getting very dark, so I expect that something coming over Lake Michigan will slam into us.

Added, 5-17: This was a bust. Some rumbles but nothing strong. I think what happens is that West of Frankfort is the deepest, coldest, part of Lake Michigan. Storms coming from the West pass over it lose energy and collapse before hitting us. It is different in the winter when it stays warmer, longer, and we get a lot of lake effect snow from evaporation in that area.
 
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Must be pretty rough to live in areas with so much predictably destructive weather while FEMA may be on "life support". Hoping somehow Mother Nature will give yall a break when you really need it this time around.
 
Northern Illinois here, it wasnt TOO bad.

No tornados, but we did get a "dust storm", which was quite the experience.

I had gone out to have a drive shortly before it hit, and at one point I make a turn, look at the sky in the distance in front of me, and I'm like, "pretty sure that isnt supposed to look like that".

Managed to get home a few minutes before the storm hit. It was loopy.

Amazingly, the power didnt go out at any time. Usually it goes out if you look at a powerline too hard.
 
North Texas here, been getting a lot of EAS alerts about severe weather lately. The storms were away from my current location, but for anyone around here affected I hope it wasn't too devastating.

I'm no stranger to severe weather, having had to take shelter from tornado activity and dealing with the aftermath of severe storms, so to anyone affected please stay safe and exercise caution!
 
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