Severe potential across northern Nebraska by Wednesday night

The summer-like heat comes back by the afternoon hours for Tuesday, warming up to about 90° again. That’ll mean a fairly mild morning for the kids with only so many days left of school.

We’ll get just a little warmer even on Wednesday, without humidity to come with this heat. Later Wednesday evening, some storms are expected to develop across northern Nebraska.

Storms look to track east from Wednesday evening after about 5 p.m. into the overnight hours, mainly staying pretty far north. There may be isolated storms that develop out ahead of everything from around O’Neill south toward Grand Island that we would watch for an isolated tornado and hail threat initially.

Storms conglomerate though in north-central Nebraska eventually and may bow out into northeast Nebraska, indicating a wind threat late Wednesday night.

There’s a small chance for storms to make it into Omaha, an even smaller chance that Lincoln sees any rain overnight into early Thursday morning.

The threat of severe weather is there with these storms, too. An upgrade to a Slight (Level 2 of 5) risk was the change from early Monday morning’s Marginal risk.

Isolated tornadoes could be possible with storms.

One of the main threats, however, is going to be damaging wind.

There’s a smaller chance for any hail concern, but it can’t be ruled out. Hail could be up to golf ball size in isolated instances with the storm potential Wednesday night.

Beyond that chance, more storms will be possible for rainfall by the end of the upcoming weekend and into next week. Temperatures should back off a bit as well, closer to about 80 for a while.

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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