The threat of a severe storm is expected to peak in the afternoon and evening.
Americans along the Mississippi River may evoke this Easter Sunday as they experience several tornadoes this Easter Sunday and appear to spread from Texas from Ohio Valley
The center specifically issues augmentation of the risk of serious thunderstorms in northern Arkansas, Missouri and western Illinois, following episodes of serious thunderstorms already underway in Texas.
The threat of a severe storm is expected to peak in the afternoon and evening, with the areas where tornadoes are most likely to develop are in northern Arkansas to central Missouri.
Missouri and Illinois are expected to start with rain and thunderstorms early in the day, with storms likely to form early in the afternoon in Kansas and Oklahoma, and a line of supercells from the Iowa/Missouri border to Arkansas.
These storms can cause hurricane winds (more than 74 mph) and have a 15% chance of being 2 inches or more in diameter. This represents the south and midwest sw from Shreveport, Louisiana to the southeastern corner of Iowa.
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The weather can affect Easter Sundays for many Americans who spend the day outside their homes, going to mass or church services, or spending brunches and other family gatherings that take place outside in the spring air.
Meanwhile, bad weather continues to hit Texas and the Southern Plains on April 19th.
The Weather Forecast Center issued a warning that “scattered and severe thunderstorms scattered from parts of Texas to southern Missouri are likely to be possible from very large ail to very large h, wind and some tornadoes.”
“We’ve isolated as much of the scattered, large, very large hail events as possible to 2.5 inches in diameter,” the warning that it’s 50 miles west along the 15-mile line from 15 miles northwest of McAlester, Oklahoma to 10 miles southeast of Mineral Wells, Texas, says that “there’s a gust of wind that caused scattered damage will be 70 mph.”
