Severe Thunderstorms Tuesday

Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! We have a SEVERE WEATHER DAY across much of the state for your Tuesday and I just want to touch on some of the details and what to expect during the day. Let's get to it folks!

Here's a look at the SLIGHT RISK area:

This by any means will not be an significant severe weather outbreak but spotty severe action can happen anywhere in the yellow (slight risk) area.

Thunderstorms are currently ongoing in the heart of Missouri and are slowly drifting to the southeast. Storms should be ongoing in the morning hours and should be just to our north and west at that time. Dewpoints should be on the rise into the mid and upper 60s pushing 70 in some areas. That will make for a muggy late morning and that looks to be about the time the Thunderstorms start to push in and have the potiential to be on the severe side. Right now, main threats look to be LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS, AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

The combination of frontal convection, sufficient instability and wind shear could make things interesting as we get into the day tomorrow. Plenty of warm air will be in place with temperatrues in the low 80s will add for more instability. A few discrete thunderstorms may go up ahead of the broken line of thunderstorms and those are the ones that have an increased risk for Large Hail and Tornadoes. Keep in mind we're on the unstable side of the stalled out cold front to the north and west. Right now the storms that are in Missouri have a severe thunderstorm watch out for them but thats mainly for the threat for hail as their on the cool side with temperatures currently in the low to mid 50s there.

I will have rapid-full updates through out the day tomorrow. Be sure to keep up to date through my facebook page. You can find me by searching "Clayton Banks" Have those weather radios on and ready all day tomorrow just in case a watch or warning is issued. More updates to come later. Have a great night everyone and take care!

Spring Is Here, Here To Stay

Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! I have several things to go over with y'all tonight and I'm going to break it down as good as I possibily can. Let's get to it folks.

Here in the short term, tomorrow we're going to see a system slide by just to our south and raise back to the north slightly. This will bring a cold rain into the area with the southern counties getting more in the way of rain than the other areas. High temperatures will struggle a bit but I think we'll top out close to 55 although it probably won't feel like it with the cold rain falling.

Friday things are looking much better, the first half of the day we may be dealing with left over and lingering showers and clouds. We clear it out for the rest of the day and our high temperatures will hit right around 63-66 degrees. Saturday we look to be mostly sunny with a few clouds highs pushing 70 degrees. Sunday looks awesome as well with high temperatures nearing 75 degrees in some areas. We may have to watch out of a shower or two on Sunday but I'm thinking it's unlikely.

Nest week sometime we're going to see two air masses colliding in the midwestern states. Cold air to the north, and warm air to the south. This looks to have two low pressure systems working along the main front. These two air masses and the low pressure systems will trigger strong to severe thunderstorms for our area during mid to late week. As of now I am unsure on how strong any thunderstorms will be and thats something I will be trying to zero in on by the weekend. I could be jumping the gun on the severe weather threat in which I hope I am but it's something to know and watch for in the coming days.

I will have more updates when I get more in as new model runs become available. Have a great rest of your Wednesday and rest of the week, and take care! :)