Hot again with severe potential for central, northern Nebraska Wednesday night

There’s one final hot, sunny day (today) before we slightly cool to more seasonal temperatures the rest of this week.

You’ll already feel a bit more humidity out there, too, this morning.

We also turn to more storm chances as the weather pattern starts to change in favor of rain chances and the threat for severe weather across Nebraska.

For Wednesday night, a Marginal to Slight (Level 2 of 5) risk covers much of central and northern Nebraska in anticipation of stronger storms possible beyond 5 p.m. this evening into the overnight hours.

There is potential for some brief, isolated spin-up tornadoes with these storms, especially with now a 5 percent chance of a tornado within 25 miles of a point in the brown shaded region below. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but this probability was increased slightly for this area as of 8 a.m. Wednesday morning.

The confidence in the hail threat has increased: hail up to 2″ in diameter will be possible tonight for the area covered by black hash marks below.

Damaging wind will also be a main threat (60-70 mph) with storms tonight especially across northern Nebraska as storms look to come together and bow out into the night.

Stormcast below shows the timing of these storms Wednesday evening and Wednesday night.

Strong to severe storms will develop first back in the northern Sandhills and toward the North Platte area before coming together across north-central and northeast Nebraska tonight into very early Thursday morning.

Most of these storms are expected to clear southeast Nebraska altogether to the north, leaving us mostly dry into the weekend.

We will be closer to 80 and more seasonable with the wind picking up on Thursday.

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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