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Good Saturday morning everyone! Mostly sunny skies prevail across a majority of the Northern Plains with a few clouds here and there across the Dakotas. A bigger cloud deck with a weakening swath of rain exists across the southern portions of SD. I expect this area of rain to slowly…

Good Saturday morning! In the last 24 hours many locations in western KS into western and far eastern NE picked up over 0.5" of rain with a few isolated pockets of nearly 3" falling in western KS/NE. A few areas are still picking up rain as of 6:40am CDT with…

Good afternoon everyone! We are currently tracking the threat for strong to severe thunderstorms to impact portions of the area (in particular the Western Plains) later this afternoon into the early nighttime hours. Shower and thunderstorm activity is ongoing across southwest NE with isolated showers spreading through north-central NE. Over…

Video: http://youtu.be/j0GXFFDZOiU?hd=1 Good Friday morning!  Here is today's weather outlook across the region: Today's latest severe storm outlook:  Enhanced severe storm threat across southwest Nebraska through western Kansas from late afternoon through tonight evolving from northwest to southeast across this area. Forecast radar from 9am today through 6am Saturday shown…

Today's video: http://youtu.be/DBJKYxOFDaU?hd=1 Good Friday morning everyone! Here's a brief synopsis of what to expect for today: A majority of the region remains inactive this morning with mostly sunny skies across MN. Scattered clouds are draped across the western Dakotas with isolated showers/storms impacting portions of western SD as of…

Good Thursday afternoon! Scattered showers and storms associated with a disturbance in the Western Plains have fired across portions of central/southwest NE into northwest KS with additional convection lifting east across southeast KS and central/southern MO. By 12am CDT most of the shower/embedded storm activity in southeast KS/southern MO will…

Today's Video:  http://youtu.be/kxBx9BXhVkQ?hd=1 Good Thursday morning everyone! Overall, a quiet start to the day with just a few scattered showers in Southern South Dakota this morning. Generally, this will be the theme throughout the day with a few very isolated showers in Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota, with a better…

Video: http://youtu.be/_2L3TJ1aL2E?hd=1 Today's forecast across the area....Iowa is the best spot to be in over the next couple of days with dry and pleasant weather, showers and storm chances focused to the south and west locations today.   On Friday, the focus for showers and storms will be across the…

Video: http://youtu.be/6-uMnQmn9N8?hd=1 2-hour radar loop ending at 12:25PM CDT.  Scattered showers and storms across southern Nebraska and northern Kansas.  Starting to see additional development further south across portions of north-central Kansas...watch for this trend to continue over the coming hours.   Latest severe storm threat graphic for this afternoon: Forecast…

Video: http://youtu.be/4fdPJFO15K0?hd=1 Today's Forecast: Watch the video for more details, but here is our thinking.  Scattered storms expected along a cold front mainly later this afternoon through the evening.  Main time-frame for severe risk looks to be from 4pm-10pm. Forecast radar snapshots from 6pm-10pm show the active evening across Kansas.…