ST. LOUIS, Missouri — The severe weather is not done. After a punishing weekend across Kansas and Oklahoma, the storm parade rolls east on Monday, April 27 — and now Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas are in the crosshairs. A 30% severe weather corridor is centered directly over St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri, with multiple supercells expected to bring damaging winds, very large hail, and tornadoes to a region that watched Sunday’s Plains outbreak from a distance. Monday is their turn.
The red zone on Monday’s outlook sits over one of the most populated corridors in the Midwest — Kansas City through St. Louis and south through Springfield into northern Arkansas — and the setup demands the same level of attention that Wichita and Oklahoma City gave Sunday.
The Red Zone — Who Is Most Exposed Monday
The 30% severe corridor — the highest risk on this map — covers a tight bull’s-eye running from Kansas City east through St. Louis and south to Springfield, Missouri. Every city inside that red polygon faces the full suite of hazards: tornadoes, very large hail, and destructive winds from multiple supercells moving through.
Missouri takes the direct hit. St. Louis and Springfield are the two most prominent cities named inside the core. Kansas City sits on the western edge of the red zone — close enough that any westward wobble in the storm track puts it squarely in the worst of it…