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Severe Weather Threat Shifted to the Southern Plains and Mid-South; Critical Fire Weather in the Southern Plains

Multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms may produce very large hail, swaths of damaging wind, a few tornadoes and heavy rain across parts of Texas into the lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys. Gusty winds and dry conditions will continue to promote elevated to critical fire weather conditions across the southern High Plains. Read More >

A strong weather system moved into the Sandhills and southwest Nebraska the night of Saturday, March 31, and left accumulating snow for Easter morning, Sunday, April 1. The axis of heaviest snowfall generally lies near I-80 from the panhandle into south central Nebraska. North Platte received Easter snow for the first time since 2004 and the second highest snowfall on Easter since 1874 with 2.8" (storm total including snow before midnight was 4.4"). The record Easter snowfall is 12", set March 29, 1891.