Thunderstorms rumble across the Plains

Storms, including severe ones, pushed across the central U.S. for another day on Sept. 19.

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00:00And when we take a look at what's going on across the central U.S., a big swirl of some thunderstorms and showers.

00:05Now, where we're dealing with actual lightning, we're into Kansas and Nebraska,

00:10and then some scattered storms on the east side of the center of circulation, including into parts of Wisconsin as well.

00:15If you're west of the center of circulation, you have that cooler flow from the north,

00:19and that's just keeping us in the Dakotas a bit more stable.

00:22We can take a little bit of a radar tour here, and zooming in on these severe storms.

00:26Northwest Kansas here, we've got a severe storm well north of Quinter to the east of Hoxie, Kansas.

00:33This one has produced golf ball-sized hail, and there's a lot of lightning.

00:36The hail core continues there.

00:38There's even been a small hint of rotation with that cell, not enough to warn as a tornadic storm,

00:43but something we have to keep an eye on.

00:44And then into an area west of Concordia, still well north of Interstate 70,

00:48areas like Lincoln, Kansas are now in a severe thunderstorm warning well in advance of a nasty storm

00:54that's approaching from your northwest, also with some hail and also potential for some damaging winds.

00:59The storms up into Minneapolis are flowing northward or moving northward with that flow from the south

01:04on the east side of the center of circulation.

01:06So there's instability here, but the wind energy is not enough to produce much in the way of severe weather here.

01:12We've had a couple of severe storms just north of the Dells of Wisconsin,

01:16but by far the greatest risk for severe storms remains north-central Kansas into the evening.

01:22So this is going to be a hazard here for Friday night.

01:24Lights there for high school football, damaging wind, hail, and even the small risk for an isolated tornado.

01:30Meanwhile, to the east, it's still real sweaty there into Columbus on the final Friday of summer.

01:3587 degrees there, only 55 in Duluth.

01:37Big contrast there, and we're going to face more showers and storms into areas like Chicago.

01:42We'll keep an eye out for that Illinois-Indiana game, maybe a shower or a storm around tomorrow evening.