Severe storm warning for 63 million Americans this week

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Source: Christian Science Monitor

The national Storm Prediction Center is warning 63 million people of possibly impending storms and tornadoes in the Midwest this week.

“An increasing risk for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes is still expected for Wednesday, November 11 (Veterans Day),” the organization writes in a Facebook post Monday. “Our current expectations are for severe thunderstorms to develop in the Great Plains Wednesday morning.” The National Weather Services warns of possible hail and heavy winds.

According to the AP, the weather threat spans from San Antonio to Chicago, and then to Cincinnati. The regions forecast to face the highest risk of severe weather are Missouri, northern Arkansas, and southern Illinois.

“The severe threat should increase by afternoon as thunderstorms capable of wind damage and tornadoes move quickly eastward across the Mississippi Valley,” the Center goes on. “The severe threat should reach the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys by Wednesday evening.”

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[LiberalArkie]

1. Good deal, right at the bottom of the red.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Borderline between red and yellow

for the folks back home.

[mcar]

11. Take care

That looks nasty.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Thanks

I won't be in town for that storm but a lot of my relatives may have to take special precautions.

[99th_Monkey]

3. Yet another climate change wake up call.

When are we going to put a screeching halt to this & stop our bullshit coddling of
the fossil fuel industry, and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, with one voice?

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. These storms are kind of normal

for this part of the country. KC is right on the edge of this stuff so hop ed fully it will miss us. Everyone knows to be careful when these things develop. We watch the weather pretty carefully.

[global1]

6. But Are These Types Of Storms Normal For November?......nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. They can come anytime there is big temp change

We don't normally get them in winter but I don't think this is ab normal for this time of year.

Weather in the Midwest is unpredictable. So many variables. Weather here is just plain weird.

[jwirr]

10. It is abnormal for Iowa and Nebraska and this map includes

them. By Thanks giving we usual are below freezing. I now live in NE MN and we had upper 50s again today. I remember this only once in my lifetime.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. When I lived in Arkansas, I don't remember any huge storms in November

About the biggest "storm" we'd get is a snow dusting right around Thanksgiving.

But recently, my part of Arkansas has had major tornadoes in December/January (before that, tornadoes were largely confined to March and April)
There was a huge snow a few years ago on Halloween (unthinkable when I lived there)
There was a huge ice storm in May (also unthinkable when I lived there)
There were 4 big snows the winter before last (when I was a kid, there was maybe one big snow every 3 or 4 years)

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. According to weather.com

Tornadoes are not all that uncommon in October and especially Novemer. There have been an average of 54 per year and as many as many as 150 in 2004 and 2005.

October and November are kind of like the other side of the spring storms where you get large weather shifts. Mostly the storms are in the Gulf states buy they happen further north, too. Missouri has had 64.

I looked under "tornadoes in November" and there is quite a bit of information.

[bvf]

5. We might dodge this bullet in NE Ohio.

Hope everyone everywhere stays safe.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. KC is right on the edge.

I hope we get missed.

[valerief]

8. Scary stuff.

[icymist]

13. It's a prediction for Wednesday! Not even happening yet!

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php