INDIANA — Severe thunderstorms could develop across parts of Indiana on Tuesday as a large storm system moves across the central United States toward the Great Lakes, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center.
In a Day 3 outlook issued Sunday evening, the Storm Prediction Center said scattered severe thunderstorms are expected from the southern Plains into the southern Great Lakes region during the day Tuesday and into the overnight hours. Much of Indiana is included in a Slight Risk (Level 2 of 5) for severe weather, with surrounding areas under a Marginal Risk (Level 1).
Meteorologists say the developing storm system will feature a strengthening upper-level trough moving eastward across the southern Plains while another system amplifies across the northern Plains and Upper Midwest. At the surface, a nearly stationary warm front is expected to extend eastward from a low-pressure system over the middle Mississippi Valley toward the southern Great Lakes region…