Severe Weather Potential Across Nebraska Sunday Evening
Severe Weather Potential:
Latest Update: 4:10 p.m. CDT
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH is in place for central and southern Nebraska until 10 p.m. CDT or 9 p.m. MDT. Storms this evening will be capable of an isolated tornado, large hail, and damaging winds.
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Severe weather continues to be possible across the state on Sunday afternoon into the overnight hours. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a SLIGHT RISK (Level 2 out of 5) for south-central Nebraska and a MARGINAL RISK (Level 1 out of 5) across the majority of north-central and eastern Nebraska.
Above is the latest run of Stormcast, showing when we could expect storms across our viewing area this evening. Models have not shown storms reaching southeast Nebraska consistently, but it will be important to have multiple ways to receive alerts, as storms have trended to outlive model predictions during the overnight hours.
Forecast:
Low temperatures tonight will fall into the upper 50s and lower 60s in southeast Nebraska.
Mostly cloudy skies and chances for showers and thunderstorms tonight in Lincoln with lows in the mid-60s.
High temperatures to start the work week will reach the middle and upper 80s across southeast Nebraska.
Upper 80s here in Lincoln on Monday with mostly sunny skies. Winds will remain out of the south between 5 and 10 miles per hours.
Warmer temperatures continue until Tuesday before another cold front pushes through, bringing chances for showers and thunderstorms through the middle of the week. High temperatures will drop to the middle and upper 70s, with partly cloudy skies by the weekend. Below-average temperatures continue before a small warm up will be possible towards the last third of the month.
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Dominic Ferraro
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