Severe storm threat for southern US this weekend

AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish has an update on the weekend forecast with severe weather for several Southern states.

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00:00This weekend, three things to know. We've got wet start, then drier weather returns to the northeast.

00:06We will have rounds of thunderstorms in parts of the southeast and also at times the upper midwest.

00:11And the heat will be building from Texas to California.

00:14So you can see the weekend. There's some of the storminess in the upper midwest.

00:18But the predominant main primary zone of strong and severe weekend thunderstorms will be into the south-central U.S.

00:24and expanding east to the east and southeastern U.S.

00:27We have a big area, a lot of square miles here.

00:30Under a Saturday afternoon, evening, and night severe weather risk.

00:33From Richmond, Virginia, down to south Georgia, all the way west into Kansas, southwest Nebraska, far eastern Colorado.

00:40And the greatest risk area for large hail is going to be into Oklahoma and north Texas.

00:45Some of this pushes into Arkansas and areas around north of Shreveport, Louisiana.

00:49So there will be damaging wind.

00:51But hail is what we're most concerned about with this area here in the southern plains.

00:56That's our main motivation behind this being a medium risk.

00:59We're moderate risk.

01:00Now, on the other hand, farther east, we talked about smoke in the northern plains.

01:03Well, here we have Saharan dust, little tiny granules of sand and dust from the Saharan desert traveling up into parts of the southeastern U.S.

01:12That's stifling any convective opportunities farther east.

01:15But no tropical threats in the short term that we're too concerned about.

01:19We've reduced the chance to basically nil for that Florida disturbance.

01:22But there's a slim chance later in the second week of June in the western Caribbean.