SEVERE WEATHER
- Severe thunderstorms occur this morning and early this afternoon north of the storm's warm front from Missouri through central Ohio
- The main threat through the mid-afternoon is hail and damaging wind gusts
- Later this afternoon or early this evening a line of severe thunderstorms is expected to develop in western Missouri, western Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and northeast Texas
- Those storms have a greater threat of tornadoes
- They could also produce damaging wind gusts and hail
- Tonight the squall line races east reaching eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, western West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, northwest Georgia, northern Alabama and northern Mississippi by Wednesday morning
- The tornado threat lowers after midnight, but a few isolated twisters are still possible through the wee hours of Wednesday morning
- Damaging wind gusts and hail should continue through the night
- Wednesday the severe threat extends from southern New York southwest to the lower Mississippi Valley, including North Carolina