Midwest girds for severe storms, possible twisters

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Residents of a half-dozen states in the nation's midsection remain on alert as weather experts forecast a rash of severe storms that could spawn strong tornados Tuesday and Wednesday.

The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma says that areas of eastern Nebraska and central Iowa are at the greatest risk of high winds, hail and other severe weather, along with parts of Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and South Dakota.

Meteorologist Bill Bunting said the storm front was moving through Omaha on Tuesday afternoon and heading southeast, fueled by warm, moist air moist air in the upper Midwest.

The severe weather threat arrives amid an unusually quiet late spring, with far fewer documented tornados in May than in previous years.

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