00:00Severe weather will be ramping up across the country over the next two weeks.
00:04We begin Thursday night as the cold front drops south, severe thunderstorms will erupt Thursday afternoon and Thursday night.
00:12That orange area is our moderate risk area, showing you the region that has the highest risk for severe weather.
00:20We're worried about damaging winds, very large hail, flash flooding, and there will be a few tornadoes.
00:26Now, we're getting closer and closer to the end of March and early April, when you see a sharp increase
00:34in severe weather and tornadoes.
00:36So history tells us we're going to be ramping up as we head into the April time frame.
00:43What does the pattern show?
00:45The pattern looks much different over the next couple of weeks.
00:49We begin next week, instead of an upper high being across the southwest, it shifts east across the central U
00:55.S.
00:55And with a dip in the jet stream in the western United States, that means we're going to be looking
01:00at systems coming out of the Rockies and into the plains with a very warm air mass in place and
01:07likely a Gulf flow.
01:08So thunderstorms will start to increase and the risk of severe weather will begin to increase as we go through
01:15next week.
01:16How about as we get into the full first week of April, same weather pattern, big dip in the western
01:24United States, which means it's going to be cooler there.
01:26But it also means warm, moist air coming in out of the Gulf into the central U.S.
01:32And with that dip in the jet stream in the west, pieces of energy comes out into the plains in
01:37the Midwest, likely producing severe weather.
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