Wednesday's potential severe weather outbreak

With temperatures in the 70s, dewpoints in the mid 60s, and an upper level trough with a pretty strong jet spells for a significant severe weather event Wednesday evening. The threat exist from as far north as Green Bay, WI northeast to Traverse City, MI down to Ft. Wayne, IN stretching southwest to Oklahoma. The moderate risk is for north central IL extending to central MO. This moderate threat is where we expect to have the biggest outbreak. Hail, damaging winds and tornadoes. There will be a line of stoms extending from Michigan to Oklahoma. The timing as far as the storms affecting Chicago seems to be between the hours of 7 and 10pm all associated with a cold front. If everything verifies, this will be our first outbreak of the season.







Here are the storms out in the plains below stretching from Iowa to Arkansas. Cloud tops are anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000ft. Hail and wind are the reports so far.