Severe Weather Alert: Giant Hail, Tornadoes & Damaging Winds Threaten Central U.S. This Week

After the first round arrived Monday night, the SPC’s Day 1 Convective Outlook puts the upper Mississippi Valley under a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms, with hailstones greater than 2 inches in diameter expected from northeast Iowa into southern Wisconsin. And it doesn’t look any better for the rest of the week, with the SPC’s Day 4-8 outlook identifying a multi-day pattern building across the central United States through Saturday.Wednesday through Thursday, storms are expected along a stalled boundary across Texas and Oklahoma, with the highest buoyancy corridor extending into Arkansas and Louisiana. Friday into Saturday looks more aggressive: a deeper trough should trigg …