00:00We've got two zones here with some risk of severe weather in and around South Dakota,
00:04western Nebraska, into southern Minnesota. Minneapolis is in on this late this evening.
00:08Also, second zone added here from Topeka and Manhattan, Kansas, to Omaha and Lincoln,
00:13east of Des Moines, Ames, Iowa, Waterloo around the edge of that.
00:17So that's another area of concern this evening.
00:19Hail, isolated tornado threats. We already had our first tornado warning of the day issued,
00:24and we're going to be dealing with some more of these gusty storms.
00:26Looking at this playing out, again, there's round one and two, these two separate zones coinciding in time.
00:35Areas around South Dakota, the larger severe weather risk area, then that smaller one, including Des Moines and Omaha as
00:41well.
00:41Moving forward, Friday, we have a bit of drying in the northern plains, finally, after day after day of storms
00:47in the Dakotas,
00:48but we're going to see some showers and thunderstorms break out in other areas into the Midwest,
00:52including in Chicago, Friday night to Saturday morning.
00:54And then it begins to look great for the northern Great Lakes in the upper Midwest,
00:59but a new disturbance on Saturday makes a push across the Rockies into Montana, eastern Wyoming,
01:04and moving into the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
01:07And it's also going to be a little stormy down near Interstate 70.
01:10We'll be taking a look at some other areas of concern farther south in just a bit,
01:14but into Sunday, more showers and thunderstorms for many of us.
01:17So the Friday forecast, showers, thunderstorms, pretty numerous in the upper Midwest, the northern plains,
01:23but trending gradually drier in the Dakotas from west to east.
01:27And we have introduced a moderate risk Friday, two out of four for Friday afternoon into the night here into
01:33the Des Moines area.
01:34Not a huge area, but Des Moines to Ames, a highly populated part of Iowa,
01:38with a greater risk of hail, strong winds, and isolated tornadoes on Friday.
01:44We'll keep an eye out for any severe weather here tomorrow evening.
01:48We'll be with you for that.
01:49And then as we move into Saturday, you can see the shower and thunderstorm activity becomes pretty widespread into Chicago.
01:56Most of this week, Chicago's been kind of sitting out the bulk of the severe risk,
02:00and you've been warm and dry with all the action a couple of states away to the west.
02:04But our time runs out on Saturday with the front moving in.
02:08Showers and thunderstorms increase.
02:10We saw that with that future radar animation.
02:12Kansas City, there's the I-70 stretch there where we get real wet at times on Saturday,
02:16and some showers to the north as well.
02:19Now, I remember at the end of that future radar loop,
02:21I showed that other zone of disturbed weather emerging from eastern Montana into western North Dakota.
02:29This is a separate storm system.
02:31It moves through the Rockies and enters the High Plains,
02:33so into parts of Saskatchewan and the northern High Plains.
02:38Remember, the plains are like a ramp, lowest in elevation near the Mississippi River,
02:41and it ramps up almost to a mile in elevation out near areas like Denver, for example,
02:48and Billings up there as well.
02:49So we're going to be dealing with more storms and showers.
02:52And then Sunday, that takes another step east, more of the Dakotas,
02:55but also some storminess breaks out into areas in and around Iowa.
03:00So final sequence for the north central U.S., we've got day after day of these storms,
03:05another yellow zone, North Dakota, northwestern South Dakota,
03:08with hail and damaging winds on Sunday afternoon and evening.
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