Heavy Rain to Replace Severe Storms In Central US Monday Night

By Brian Lada, Meteorologist

July 6,2015; 9:10PM,EDT

 

 

The threat for severe storms across the central United States will wane Monday night as heavy rain becomes the primary threat.
A line of thunderstorms along a slow-moving cold front will stretch across a swath of the nation's midsection nearly 1,000 miles long, from Illinois southwest into Texas.
Damaging winds and even tornadoes were reported with these thunderstorms Monday evening, but heavy, flooding rain will replace the threat for severe weather Monday night.
The highest threat for flooding will focus on the southern extent of the storms across the central Plains.

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Kansas City; Wichita, Kansas; Amarillo, Texas; and Oklahoma City are just a handful of cities that will be most at risk for flooding through Tuesday.

"The greatest threats from the storms later Monday night will be flash flooding," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
Sosnowski warned that people spending time outdoors across this section of the country should keep an eye out for rapidly changing weather conditions.
Even if a storm is not producing any severe weather, you should still seek shelter to stay protected from lightning.
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The threat for severe weather will renew on Tuesday as the cold front progresses eastward into the Ohio Valley.
However, Tuesday's storms are not expected to be quite as intense as those from Monday.
Some heavy storms are also expected to linger back over part of the southern Plains on Tuesday, continuing the threat of localized flooding from Missouri to the Texas Panhandle.
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Content contributed by AccuWeather Meteorologist Andy Mussoline