Scattered, stronger storms possible Tuesday afternoon across southeast Nebraska

It’s been a muggy start to the morning so far, with dew point temperatures still hovering in the middle 60s. We won’t see relief from the humidity until the cold front sweeps through later this afternoon – but then we have less humidity for the rest of the week!

Storm chances increase just after that cold front passes through, with strong and possible severe storms after about 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Scattered storms are expected to develop depending on how much clearing some areas see in the cloud cover from the morning. More sunshine would allow a more unstable environment for storms to pop.

Overall, this will be a more conditional threat today. Any storms that do pop will intensify especially as they move south and east into the Slight (Level 2 of 5) risk that is southeast of Lincoln.

Lincoln and areas in eastern Nebraska under the Marginal risk (green) are where storms are expected to first start forming, with only a couple expected to become severe in that area.

The main threats will be hail around 1″ in diameter and damaging wind gusts.

Damaging wind gusts could be around 60 mph (locally higher gusts possible) with these storms. For those areas that have recently been saturated by a lot of rain, we’ll be mindful of that risk for flooding as well.

After Tuesday, the rest of the week has very minimal chances for moisture.

Again with the humidity clearing out, we should be in for some nicer days!

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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