Life-Threatening Tornado Outbreak Likely in Plains States

[Dead_Parrot]

A “high-end, life-threatening” tornado outbreak is likely on Saturday from Texas northeastward to Iowa, with Kansas and Oklahoma at the greatest risk for powerful tornadoes, and another area of heightened risk in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, according to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC).

Cities under the greatest tornado threat include Oklahoma City, Okla., Omaha, Neb., and Wichita, Kan. That National Weather Service forecast offices in those two cities have prepared multimedia forecast briefings to discuss the tornado threats in greater detail.



The SPC, which is part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), issued a rare “high risk” outlook for severe weather more than a day in advance for a swath of Oklahoma and Kansas, with a "moderate risk" covering a broader area from Texas to Iowa.

This is only the second time that a "high risk" has been issued two days in advance, and the first time ever for the "initial day two" forecast, according to a post on SPC's Facebook page. The only other time a "high risk" outlook was issued for a two-day forecast was for an outbreak on April 7, 2006, when more than 70 tornadoes touched down, killing 13 and causing more than $1 billion in damage.

More: http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/life-threatening-tornado-outbreak-likely-in-plains-states-officials-warn/
SPC: http://www.spc.ncep.noaa.gov/

[intaglio]

1. Keep safe people n/t

[madokie]

2. I guess this would figure to be one of my biggest fears

right behind a puke's stealing of an election or the SC installing some more rightwing dicks like the dick and w.