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The center of USA expect a strong climate instability it is Thursday, August 15according to the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecast. Several Midwestern states remain under alert for thunderstorms, excessive rainfallpossible flash floods, damaging winds and fall of hail. In addition, the emphasis is placed on extreme heat wave in the south and southeast of the North American country.
“A low pressure/frontal system passing through the center of the country continues to help trigger rounds of showers and thunderstorms leading to the threat of some flash floods and severe weather. The low pressure center is forecast to gradually move eastward across the Upper Midwest today and reach the Great Lakes by the end of the week,” the weather agency warned in its forecast.
The US weather forecast map for Thursday, August 15NWS
Thus, the areas affected by the thunderstorms involve the northeast of Oklahomathe east of Kansasalmost everything Missourithe southeast of Iowa, Illinoisthe west of Indiana and the west of Kentuckyin large cities like Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Aurora y Overland Park. In this same area, the NWS also anticipated a high probability of damaging windswith gusts of up to 120 kilometers per hour, and a fall of hail with a diameter of up to five centimeters.
Areas under warning for damaging winds in the USNWS
With a lower probability, damaging winds and hail will also be present in other states such as southern Minnesotathe center and south of Wisconsinthe east of Nebraskathe southeast of Dakota del Surthe southwest of Michigan and the rest of the east of Kansascenter and north of Oklahomawest of Kentuckyall of Indiana, north of Arkansas and west of Ohio, as well as other areas in the center and east of Idaho and west of Montana and, in New England, in Vermont, Nuevo Hampshire, Maine, Nueva York, Massachusetts, Connecticut y Rhode Island.
In parallel, the NWS issued another alert for excessive rainfall that could lead to flash floods in the center of the North American country. The areas involved are the center and east of Missourithe south of Illinoisthe south of Indiana and the west of Kentucky“Storms are expected to redevelop during the afternoon, increasing in coverage through the evening, with a Slight Risk (Level 2/4) for Excessive Rainfall in effect given the threat for some heavy showers and potential convection to form leading to flash flooding,” the agency said.
Heat will continue to be the primary weather factor across much of the south-central U.S. through early this weekend and likely beyond, the NWS said. Meanwhile, parts of eastern Oklahomacenter and east of Arkansaswest of Tennessee and of Mississippi and north and southeast of Louisiana remain under alert for excessive heat, including cities such as Tulsa, New Orleans and Memphis.
Excessive heat alerts (purple) and heat warnings (orange)NWS
In turn, the NWS issued heat warnings for other large areas of land, in the north, east and southeast of Texasthe rest of Louisiana, Mississippi y Arkansasmuch of Oklahomathe southeast of Kansasthe southwest of Missourithe west of Tennesseethe south of Alabama and the northwest and south of Floridain cities like Houston, Dallas, Oklahoma City y Miami.
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