Storms bring flood and hail threats to the Plains

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Slow-moving thunderstorms are soaking much of the central U.S.

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00:00We will be watching out for a risk of severe weather now Chicago is not necessarily going

00:03to be included in this overall risk of severe weather Chicago on the map if I can draw that

00:07Chicago on the map is up here actually no I think yeah that's my geography see I may not be that

00:14good at reading but I'm a lot better at geography but yes we will be watching out for a risk of

00:18severe weather here across the high plains Texas Oklahoma and the parts of Kansas Missouri even

00:23Iowa and far western parts of Illinois be watching out for a threat of severe weather

00:27so here's the latest on radar this is a one hour radar loop so we have our AccuWeather exclusive

00:32storm zone highlighted on this map and what you're looking at here all those little yellow

00:36boxes that you see populating the map those are severe thunderstorm warnings those are

00:40thunderstorms that are capable of producing let's see today is the 11th I'm trying to

00:44see yeah that's a uh that's a view of that storm we were tracking earlier in Norman there so that's

00:49a pretty good view right there that's a classic supercell thunderstorm and those were the storms

00:53pushing through the south Oklahoma City metro and those are storms producing some heavy rainfall

00:57and some small hail so these are the kinds of storms we're going to be tracking across the state of

01:01Oklahoma and that storm right there that you see in Norman those are the types of storms that

01:05populate those little yellow boxes the yellow boxes on this map are severe thunderstorm warnings

01:10those are thunderstorms capable of producing about quarter size hail inch hail or about 60 mile an hour

01:15winds give or take a couple so if a storm can produce either one of those things they get those

01:19little yellow boxes now the little green box you see here that are blinking those are flood warnings now

01:24that's where we've had heavy dangerous rainfall so you see a lot more of those here especially

01:29lining up along the I-44 corridor so we will be watching out for that potential of flooding rainfall

01:34to continue here even as we enter this evening because one thing we've noticed about these storms

01:38here they haven't been moving very fast and the slower a storm moves the more that it allows to just

01:44stay over the same location so that's where those rain gauges really start to fill up is when you have

01:48slow moving severe thunderstorms look at this even as we head into nine o'clock the storms we're tracking

01:52right now those are slowly going to move off but we'll see a redevelopment of storms here off to

01:57the west here across the texas panhandle these storms primarily look like they're going to stay

02:01to the south of the red river so far today most of the storms have been in oklahoma but looks like

02:06these storms will stay south of the red river in far northern northwestern parts of texas so we'll be

02:11watching out for that especially the base right there of the texas panhandle is what we're going to be

02:15watching here but overall we will be watching out for that potential of showers storms severe weather to

02:20continue in the forecast here even as we head into the evening even as we head into the overnight

02:25hours heading into your early uh tuesday morning the good news is the storms will still be lingering

02:30there'll be some rain showers around for the morning commute but as far as any severe threats that's not

02:34necessarily going to be in the forecast but we will be watching out for once again heavy flooding

02:38rainfall to continue to dominate this region even as we head into tonight

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