Storms possible on and off the rest of the week
After being dry to the bone, Mother Nature is finally throwing us a few bones.
A few showers across Lincoln early Tuesday morning amounted to about 0.04″ here at the station. More storms will be possible later this morning before clouds clear and lead to a warm, muggy afternoon again.
Temperatures will be summer-like in the mid 80s and 90s statewide on Tuesday. Lincoln’s average high at this time of the year is 80° in comparison.
Larger-scale forcing is set to bring strong to severe thunderstorms in western Nebraska Tuesday evening. From 6-8 p.m. tonight, storms will roll into the Panhandle and pose a severe risk.
As of this morning, the Storm Prediction Center had upgraded the risk to an Enhanced (Level 3 of 5) risk for areas including Sidney and Alliance. Ogallala, Imperial, and Scottsbluff are on the edge of this higher risk as well.
The primary threat with these storms will be damaging wind. Some hail is possible, but the higher confidence is in the wind potential as gusts could exceed 75 mph in the area below with black hash marks.
This wave will weaken overnight to bring about another storm chance across eastern Nebraska Wednesday morning. By the afternoon and evening Wednesday, storms will try to reinvent themselves over eastern Nebraska again – there’s a Marginal (Level 1 of 5) risk that a storm or two could be severe from that round.
Our unsettled weather pattern is just beginning, too! Rain chances continue well into the upcoming weekend.
Meteorologist Jessica Blum
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