Author: Avery Hughes

SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES — A cool front is sneaking into the South this week, delivering a rare taste of fall-like air across the Southeast including Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas while leaving behind a Gulf moisture blob that is expected to remain mostly contained over the Gulf of Mexico through Friday night. The NOAA precipitation…

CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA — An isolated strong tornado is possible across central South Dakota Wednesday evening between 5 PM and 10 PM, with a hatched tornado risk zone centered directly over the Pierre to Aberdeen corridor indicating the highest concentration of supercell and tornado potential in the region. The threat map shows a brown hatched…

COLORADO AND SURROUNDING REGION — Scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms will continue across Colorado and the surrounding region Wednesday June 3rd, with a few storms capable of producing damaging winds, hail, and marginally large hail particularly along the Front Range I-25 corridor and eastern plains. The overall severe threat is lower than Tuesday but not…

NORTHERN PLAINS — Widespread severe storms are forecast across the Northern Plains Wednesday June 3rd, carrying damaging winds, large hail, and the potential for a tornado or two across a corridor that includes Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and the broader Dakotas region under a Slight Risk designation. The categorical outlook issued by Max Velocity Weather…

SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES — A rare and welcome June cold front is set to deliver a fall-like feel across a broad swath of the Southeast by Thursday morning, dropping overnight low temperatures into the 50s across Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and surrounding states as dry air pours in behind the frontal passage. The Thursday morning…

NORTHERN GULF COAST — A Gulf Watch is in effect as a weak area of low pressure attempts to spin up at the tail end of a decaying cold front over the Gulf of Mexico later this week, bringing tropical feeder bands, heavy rainfall, wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph, coastal flooding, and dangerous…

COLORADO — An active stretch of weather continues across Colorado and the surrounding region Tuesday June 2nd, with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms expected to develop from the Mountains and Foothills through the Front Range I-25 corridor and eastward into the plains of western Nebraska and western Kansas. Large hail is the primary threat across…

DAKOTAS — Very large hail and a couple of tornadoes are possible across the Dakotas Tuesday June 2nd, with northwest South Dakota carrying the highest risk where shear and instability are maximized under a Risk Level 2 of 5 outlook. The tornado probability has been upgraded to a 5 percent chance within a concentrated brown…

HOUSTON, TEXAS — A multi-day stormy pattern is set to descend upon Houston and the greater Southeast Texas region through Saturday and possibly into Sunday, bringing widespread showers and thunderstorms with rainfall totals projected to reach 2 inches or more across a large portion of the area. The NBM 2.5 km precipitation model initialized Tuesday…