Severe weather, including hail and thunderstorms, is expected this weekend. AccuWeather's Anna Azallion reports strong winds and heavy rain in Kansas and Oklahoma. The Northeast will have rain.
00:00Across the eastern U.S. Thunderstorms are already waking up some this morning on Father's Day and
00:06of course you can expect more to fire up this afternoon in several spots.
00:10Some thunderstorms in the plains could be severe with damaging winds and large hail possible.
00:15Flooding's also a risk as downpours can quickly overwhelm some spots.
00:18Of course we already saw that this week with Thursday morning's deadly flooding in San Antonio, Texas.
00:24We're going to start off in the north central where we are talking about that flooding risk
00:28but before we talk about what's to come I want to rewind a little bit talk about what we have seen
00:32the last 24 hours with our storm reports quite a few hail reports here as we are into Montana into the
00:38Dakotas a few hail reports as well a lot of the action was kind of a little bit further to the
00:43west yesterday but of course moves a little bit further east today two inch hail reports we've
00:48seen some one and a half quarter inch hail reports varying sizes but some larger hail in there as
00:54well we have a funnel cloud report from yesterday evening just for 530 in northern Montana there and
00:59then towards Denver we have that tornado report as well these are things we'll get more information
01:04about as the days go on and those storm surveys are completed but unfortunately we have more of
01:10this weather to come.
01:12We are talking about another day with a possible severe weather risk not just into kind of the
01:19rockies but a little bit farther to the east as well taking a zoomed in look at a radar we're not seeing a lot of
01:25action right now this is kind of the calm before the storms here's the area we're most concerned about today when
01:32those storms do get going it's a level one out of four some risks so a lower end threat but still something to take
01:38seriously because we could see all types of severe weather including isolated tornadoes which of course is going to have an impact if you are hit by a tornado
01:47not an all-day washout situation as we see on future radar here we start off this evening we're looking at 530 right now
01:54we see some of those isolated cells that can bring some of those damaging wind gusts the hail
01:59even maybe an isolated tornado or two but then come the downpours this is where we start to get into the flash flood risk
02:06and it's not just because of maybe an isolated downpour here or there it's because we're getting round after round of this
02:12this is not a system that's moving through you know a line of storms moving with a cold front
02:16no these are different features that are going to bring a few different rounds of thunderstorms over
02:22the coming days a lot of heavy downpours associated with this tomorrow as well we're at 5 30 now as this
02:27moves a little bit farther to the east impacting the Great Lakes region but the Dakotas you're still
02:31getting your fair share of rainfall as we head into Monday when yes we have another severe weather threat
