The National Weather Service says parts of southwest and central Iowa could see strong to severe thunderstorms Monday evening, Nov. 2, with damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes possible overnight.
Forecasters placed roughly the southwestern half of Iowa under a marginal risk for severe weather, the lowest category on the five-level severe storm outlook scale.
According to the National Weather Service in Des Moines, an upper-level storm system moving east from the Rocky Mountains is expected to bring rain at times Monday. Additional thunderstorms are expected to form Monday evening, first across eastern Kansas, before moving quickly northeast into Iowa after dark.
Severe threat expected after dark
Officials said stronger wind shear and instability could allow a few storms to produce damaging straight-line winds or isolated tornadoes…