00:00From hurricane prep to severe storms now that slammed Colorado yesterday, brought golf ball size hail and dangerous winds.
00:06There was even a report of two inch diameter hail for some.
00:09Check out this video from an apartment building showing intense rain and hail that was falling across downtown Denver as
00:15the storm passed through the area.
00:17Tony Lawback was just miles away with footage of snow plows that were required to clear some state highways from
00:24the hail.
00:25Well, right now we're dealing with another round of strong and severe thunderstorms up into the Dakotas.
00:29Kind of a similar area to yesterday.
00:31And again, the Denver Metro is in this conversation again.
00:34But the greatest risk is yet again up into the Dakotas and the Black Hills here in western South Dakota
00:40taking center stage with damaging wind and hail.
00:42Look at all that out there in Denver.
00:44What a mess.
00:45You know what?
00:46It's big time hail and it begins to strip some of the leaves off of the trees and getting hail
00:50blasted there and the vehicles.
00:52But wind and hail are the biggest threats here again tonight from eastern Colorado all the way up to North
00:57Dakota.
00:58And here's the meter showing two out of four.
01:01That's where our moderate risk here on AccuWeather's four-tiered scale lands.
01:05It goes some risk, moderate risk, high risk, and then we go extreme risk for the high end.
01:10But localized damaging winds, isolated tornadoes hail.
01:13Areas like Williston and Minot, North Dakota, and then eventually Bismarck gets into it.
01:17Glendive, Montana, Spearfish, and Rapid City are also at risk as well.
01:21Now, Wednesday, we take a half a state east with our step here for the severe risk.
01:27So instead of it being western parts of the Dakotas, it's more the eastern Dakotas.
01:31So Fargo and Grand Forks, you'll be in the risk area for Wednesday.
01:35And Wednesday, again, a two out of four risk, a moderate threat for damaging wind and hail.
01:40Yet again, though, isolated tornadoes will occur.
01:42There have been five tornadoes confirmed from Sunday, by the way, by the National Weather Service crews in Sioux Falls.
01:48All five of them happen to be in southeastern South Dakota.
01:52Two of them occurred in one small town.
01:54Two others occurred in another small town, or at least within a few miles.
01:57And then the fifth occurred in another area there in southeastern South Dakota.
02:01So they do kind of come in little flurries, even during these events that are primarily wind and hail driven.
02:07Let's take a look at Fargo, for example.
02:09This is for Wednesday.
02:10We put the big bubble over Fargo.
02:12Wind and hail are the main concerns.
02:132 p.m., though, there's not much going on here.
02:15It looks pretty good.
02:16You can mow the lawn or do whatever you have going on if you're on a landscape crew.
02:20But into the evening, this rolls in with some aggressive evening thunderstorms.
02:24And you can see the timing of that.
02:26We can play it again around 7 to 10 p.m.
02:29when Grand Forks and Fargo probably hits Grand Forks earlier than Fargo.
02:32But 7 to 10 p.m. for Fargo and Moorhead there from Fargo, North Dakota, to Moorhead, Minnesota.
02:38Thursday, another half a state step east.
02:41So now we're getting into areas like Bemidji, Minnesota and, you know, St. Cloud more than Minneapolis, St. Paul.
02:47The trend is that the severe threat on Friday, by the way, maybe a little farther south.
02:52But Thursday, there's still a significant area even farther west where storms kind of refire into Billings behind that primary
02:59storm system.
03:00Another one begins to rotate through the Rockies.
03:03And as that disturbance reaches the western part of the Plains, a new episode breaks out.
03:07But Friday, showers and storms for many.
03:09And yet again, again, we're keeping an eye out for wind and hail.
03:12We do have a map out now.
03:14And we're highlighting areas south of Minneapolis for the greatest threat on Friday.
03:19Farther south, Texas is not exempt from any of this.
03:21I know we've been talking a lot about what's going on to the north.
03:23But we have some big storms developing tonight, eastern New Mexico into west Texas.
03:27Some of this is going to be kind of repetitive and moving through areas with some dry, arid ground.
03:32That can lead to a rapid runoff and more in the way of some concerns involving flash flooding.
03:38There is that Friday risk area, Kansas up into areas south of Minnesota.
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