A wave of severe storms will move across the Midwest and northern Plains throughout the middle of the week, bringing a risk of severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, flash flooding, and possible tornadoes to the area.
The storms will descend on a broad stretch of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee valleys on Tuesday afternoon, putting more than 18 million people in Tennessee, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa at a slight risk of severe thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service . More than 19 million were also at a slight risk of a tornado, the agency said.
The Ohio and Tennessee river valleys could see “drenching rain” from a storm complex that moved into the area on Monday evening, according to AccuWeather .
Thunderstorms striking Iowa on Tuesday and Wednesday could have “severe potential,” the National Weather Service in Des Moines said on X . The western part of the state and northeastern Nebraska could see damaging winds of up to 75 mph and large hail on Tuesday overnight.