53 million from the Midwest to the Great Lakes are at risk of seeing severe weather on Tuesday
More than 53 million people from the Midwest to the Great Lakes region will be at risk for severe weather on Tuesday, with threats including large hail, damaging wind gusts and even some tornadoes.
chicago – A powerful cross-country storm currently battering the West with heavy mountain snow will continue to move eastward, bringing the threat of severe weather to more than 53 million people from the mid-Mississippi Valley and Midwest to the Great Lakes. region on Tuesday, including major urban areas such as Saint Louis, chicago, Indianapolis And Detroit.
On Monday afternoon, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) updated its severe weather forecast for Tuesday and expanded the danger zone to include the Motor City, as well as Pittsburgh.
The first round of strong storms late Monday night and early Tuesday could produce large, isolated hailstones across portions of the central Great Lakes region in southern Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Then there will be a break in work by sunrise on Tuesday.
Tuesday morning through the afternoon hours should be calm weather-wise. But as the day continues, moisture will flow north before the main storm system approaches from the west.
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This moisture will move further north than previously expected and will reach as far north as southern Michigan, the Fox Forecast Center said.
Normally, at this time of year, the moisture needed to fuel a severe weather threat is limited to the Gulf Coast and Deep South, but that is not the case with this rare threat in late February.
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Tornadoes and large hail are possible Tuesday in the Midwest Great Lakes
The atmosphere will become unstable due to moist air flowing in from the south interfering with record warmth across the central part of the United States, the FOX Forecast Center said.
This will lead to storms developing later Tuesday and Tuesday evening, as well as overnight and early Wednesday morning.
The committee said more than 53 million people were at risk of severe weather starting Tuesday.
The threat extends from northern Arkansas to western Pennsylvania.
Nighttime tornadoes are likely to become more deadly than daytime tornadoes
However, more than 30 million people from eastern Missouri to southern Michigan were placed at Level 2 out of 5 on the SPC's 5-point severe thunderstorm risk scale.
This Tier 2 of the 5 cities includes Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, plus… Peoria And Springfield in illinois And Fort wayne in Indiana. Detroit is also included as a Tier 2 threat.
While Pittsburgh is now among the cities such as cincinnati, Columbus And cleveland Those who are also at risk for severe thunderstorms on Tuesday, the SPC has only placed them at threat level one.
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Meteorologists said there is a risk of tornadoes, large hailstones, and damaging wind gusts with any thunderstorms starting on Tuesday. Flash flooding is also a concern due to strong thunderstorms that dump heavy rain.
These threats extend from Missouri to Ohio.
However, there is an area where there is a higher threat of hailstones at least 2 inches in diameter across parts of eastern Illinois, northern Indiana, southern Michigan and northwest Ohio.
What is a “hatched area”?
This video explains what a “shaded area” on a severe weather map means.
Sometimes, SPC uses a black shaded area called a “shaded area”.
It is so called because shading consists of closely spaced lines, a practice known as hatching.
FOX Weather shows these areas a little differently and are indicated as areas with a black line surrounding them filled with gray circles.
A “shaded area” means there is a high threat for the particular type of severe weather described on the associated map within the highlighted area.
