Heavy Snow Across the Northern Plains and Great Lakes; Strong Winds for the East

Travel conditions will be challenging across the northern Plains, Great Lakes and east coast through Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Heavy snow, blizzard conditions, for the upper Midwest and Great Lakes region through Thanksgiving to be followed by another strong storm for the Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast this weekend. Strong winds are expected with these systems adding to travel difficulties Read More >

Overview

Upper level energy associated with remnants of an earlier thunderstorm complex over Kansas, along with a nearly stationary front interacted with a very unstable atmosphere to produce a round of severe storms and localized flooding during the afternoon and evening of June 23rd, 2016. Afternoon surface based CAPES were around 5000 j/kg over southern Missouri indicating a highly unstable atmosphere. Damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 mph were the main severe weather events along with some localized flooding with slow moving thunderstorms which dropped over three to four inches of rain in a short period of time in some areas.