Severe Weather Zone into Tonight: Kansas to Indiana
May 06, 2012; 3:58 PM
The corridor from Kansas to Indiana, as well as a few communities in the southern Plains, remains at risk for violent thunderstorms through the night.
Severe thunderstorms will continue from eastern Kansas to western and northern Missouri to northwestern Indiana.
A zone of spottier, yet violent thunderstorms will target central Texas at the same time.
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Some thunderstorms will also cross Chicagoland although the heaviest storms should remain south of the region.
The severe weather threat will continue to transition overnight farther south and east into northern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and central Indiana.
These thunderstorms could take aim at Fayetteville, Ark., St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Mo., Mt. Vernon, Ill., and Lafayette, Ind.
The strongest thunderstorms through the overnight hours threaten to unleash damaging winds, hail and flooding downpours.
A tornado touching down and causing destruction cannot be ruled out, especially across central Illinois and northern Missouri.
Several powerful thunderstorms already left their mark from northwestern Missouri to southern Wisconsin earlier today.
Golf ball-sized hail slammed Stewartsville, Mo., at midday, while thunderstorm winds snapped two power line poles at their base during the morning hours.
Looking forward, the threat for severe weather will shift to places from Ohio to northeastern Texas on Monday as cooler air advances to the south and east.