Severe Weather Outbreak Could Produce Intense Tornadoes, Damaging Winds And Hail In Midwest, Plains, South

Significant Severe Weather Persists This Week

Another outbreak of severe weather could produce intense tornadoes, damaging hail and destructive straight-line winds in portions of the Plains, Midwest and South as the week begins.

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Happening Now

This latest outbreak began in the Plains late Sunday. Tornadoes struck Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. For all of Sunday's news as it happened, read our updates here.

There is a lull in severe weather this morning over the central United States, but we expect another flare-up to begin this afternoon and evening.

You can track the storms here using our maps.

Monday's Forecast

The primary threat of severe weather will be from northern Texas into central and eastern parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, northwest Arkansas and much of Missouri, as shaded in red below. That includes Dallas-Fort Worth; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Wichita, Kansas; Fort Smith, Arkansas; and Kansas City.

These areas have the highest risk of strong to intense tornadoes (EF2 to EF3 damage potential), very large hail and destructive winds. There is also the potential for flash flooding from heavy rainfall.

Other more isolated severe storms are possible in orange-shaded areas over the Plains, Midwest and Southeast states.

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Tuesday's Forecast

The severe weather threat is expected to shift farther east toward parts of the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee valleys, with the greatest risk in red below from southwest Kentucky to middle and western Tennessee, northern Mississippi and northern Alabama.

Birmingham and Huntsville, Alabama; Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee; Tupelo, Mississippi; St. Louis; and Louisville, Kentucky, are some of the cities that should keep up to date on possible severe weather.

Severe Weather Recap

This rash of severe weather began in the Great Lakes and Midwest Thursday, then heavily impacted the Midwest, South and East Friday.

There was a bit of a lull on Saturday with some severe storms impacting the South. Now, we are in the midst of another round that first began in the Plains Sunday.

Combined, there were more than 90 reports of tornadoes from Thursday through Sunday.

Notable tornadoes included:

-An EF2 in northwest Wisconsin near New Richmond on Thursday.

-EF3 damage was found from a tornado that hit St. Louis on Friday.

-Marion, Illinois, was hard hit by an EF4 tornado on Friday.

-At least EF3 damage has been assessed for a tornado that devastated the London, Kentucky, area Friday night.

Chris Dolce has been a senior digital meteorologist with weather.com for nearly 15 years after beginning his career with The Weather Channel in the early 2000s.