Buckle up, it could get loud Monday in Minnesota as a severe weather outbreak is being discussed as a possibility by the National Weather Service.
“It looks like the severe risk is going to increase on Monday/April 28th and Tuesday/April 29th from the Great Plains eastward into the mid to upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes. All hazards will be possible,” the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) said Thursday.
In the Day 5 severe weather outlook, the SPC has placed most of Minnesota in a 15% slight risk for severe storms, while a chunk of southern and southeastern Minnesota and most of Iowa is in an enhanced zone where there is a 30% risk already being monitored.
The machine learning models at Colorado State University have painted a similarly potent outlook for Monday, showing the bullseye for severe weather over Iowa and Minnesota.
Big-time severe weather setup brewing early next week. Monday could be particularly intense from Iowa down into northeast Kansas, supercells, damaging winds, and tornadoes all possible. We’ll be releasing daily update videos leading up to our inevitable live stream coverage on… pic.twitter.com/mIvMlIvDsx
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According to the SPC, the greatest risk for severe weather “should be centered on IA and adjacent areas from extreme northeast KS into southeast MN/southwest WI, where an intense low-level jet is expected to develop by late afternoon/early evening.”…