Damaging winds, flash flooding to roll through the Plains early week
The same storm system that is bringing heavy rain and flash flooding risks to the Ohio Valley and Northeast early this week will also be the culprit for strong to severe thunderstorms across the Plains early week.
Tornado-warned storms dumped rain and hail on Missouri as they tore through the Midwest on July 31, creating these dramatic scenes.
Thunderstorms drenched the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and Southeast on Saturday. Some thunderstorms turned severe, bringing damaging winds and flooding to parts of Ohio, Indiana and the Southeast.
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The severe weather threat decreases on Sunday as flooding rainfall occurs across a large portion of the eastern third of the country. However, a few thunderstorms within the broader area of rain could still produce localized damaging wind gusts, particularly from western Pennsylvania south through the mid-Atlantic and into the Florida Panhandle.
Early this week, the focus for severe weather is expected to shift back west to the northern portions of the Plains, where thunderstorms are likely Monday afternoon and evening.
"Another storm moving across Canada will push a cold front across the center of the nation early this week. Thunderstorms developing along the front can produce hail and damaging wind gusts across the Dakotas and Minnesota on Monday," AccuWeather Meteorologist Haley Taylor added.
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