Huge Severe Weather Mess In Central Plains

Here in the Brazos Valley, severe weather season has come and gone without a scratch. This does not completely means that we will not see any severe weather during the summer or early Autumn, but looking at the records and seasonal trends, this part of Texas tends to quiet down. Also, when you encompass all of the events for our region, there have been several episodes of torrential rain, but other than that, nothing to really talk about around the water cooler. Now the shift in moment is for the central Plains and the Mid-West. 

In the upper levels, high pressure is building in and will shut down any chance of rain through the rest of the week and into the weekend.

This type of pattern mimics one of the "ring of fire" highs that we are familiar with during the heat of the summer. We call this the "ring of fire" because in the center of the ring, the weather remains tranquil, but around the "ring" is where the action takes place. Energy glides along the periphery of this "ring" and interacts with the difference in temperature that helps to generate thunderstorms, which can become severe. 

In the case of what happened this afternoon and evening, a multitude of severe thunderstorms unleashed their fury on parts of Wyoming, but especially in Nebraska and Iowa. Below is an image of Max Storm, Doppler Radar illustrating how ubiquitous the severe weather is.

  
As you guessed it, there are very nasty storms that created all modes of severe weather from large damaging hail, tornadoes, and extreme straight line winds.

Reports were plenty and consolidated along a couple of lines where storms gerated and traveled like a train on a train track.

As of 9PM CDT, there have been 11 reports of tornadoes. Know that there can be multiple reports for a single tornado. Its up to the National Weather Service to determine how many tornadoes actually touched down following the event as they survey the damage.

It's not just tornadoes, but incredible reports came out of Nebraska of hail and straight line winds too. In both Minatare and Kennard, Nebraska, softball size hail was reported. In addition, 100mph winds were estimated in Newport, Nebraska.

There is more ongoing at this time, and flooding will be the main issue across Iowa all night long.   

"Take a look up once in a while; you never know what you’ll miss."

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