This week’s stretch of severe weather will extend from the eastern Great Lakes to southern Texas today, putting tens of millions at risk.
As the storm tracks quickly eastward through the Great Lakes, anomalously warm air will be drawn north, boosting instability ahead of a sharp cold front draped from the eastern Great Lakes through the Mid-South. This environment will and has already fueled widespread thunderstorms, some of which being severe.
The cold front will primarily support squall lines and clusters of thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds, hail, and a few tornadoes from the eastern Great Lakes through the Ohio Valley and into the Mid-South. Severe impacts will linger through the evening across the Deep Mid-South. The greatest tornado potential will be focused across the Upper Ohio Valley, though isolated damaging wind gusts and hail will be possible throughout the region…