Another outbreak of severe weather could produce intense tornadoes, damaging hail and destructive straight-line winds in portions of the Plains, Midwest and South as the week begins. (MORE:Download The Weather Channel App) This latest outbreak began in the Plains late Sunday. Tornadoes struck Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. For all of Sunday's news as it happened,read our updates here. There is a lull in severe weather this morning over the central U.S., but we expect another flare-up to begin this afternoon and evening. You can track the storms here using our maps. The primary threat of severe weather will be from northern Texas into central and eastern parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, northwest Arkansas and much of Missouri, as shaded in red below. That includes Dallas-Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Wichita, Kansas, Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Kansas City. These areas have the greatest chance to see strong to intense tornadoes (EF2 to EF3 damage potential), very large hail and destructive winds. Other more isolated severe storms are possible in areas shaded orange over the Plains, Midwest and Southeast states. Tuesday:The severe threat is expected to shift farther east toward the Ark-La-Tex and mid-Mississippi Valley. It's too early to determine specific impacts, so check back to The Weather Channel App and weather.com for updates on this forecast through the next several days and we'll provide more information. For now, the Storm Prediction Center is warning of large to very large hail and damaging winds. On Thursday, an EF2 tornado was confirmed in northwest Wisconsinnear New Richmond. In southeast Wisconsin, at least one damaging tornado tore through parts of Dodge County, including the towns ofJuneau and Mayville. In southern Michigan, a pair of EF0 tornadoes were confirmed near and north of Battle Creek Thursday. Softball size hail - 4 inches in diameter - has been reported in multiple locations: -Atloona, Wisconsin (Thursday) -Barlow, Kentucky (Friday) -Sullivan, Indiana (Friday) On Friday, atornado moved through western and northern St. Louis. The National Weather Service Office in St. Louis confirmed parts of the tornado's path hadlevel EF3 intensity.Latest news on this tornado can be found here. A tornado in Laurel County, Kentucky, killed 9 people on Friday, according to anupdate by the Laurel County Fiscal Court. Other tornadoes were spotted nearSullivan, Indiana, andMarion, Illinois, which may have been a strong tornado according to radar. Later in the evening, a strong to intense tornado stuck near Somerset, Kentucky. (MORE:Tornado Safety Tips|What If No Basement|Dangers Of Severe Thunderstorms) Over the course of Thursday and Friday, there were over 50 tornado reports, according to the Storm Prediction Center. On Saturday, most of the storm reports were from damaging winds and large hail. However, there was one tornado report in Garvin County, Oklahoma. In Wise County, Texas there were reports of baseball sized hail. The outbreak marks the end of a relatively quiet period. There hasn't been a day with more than 10 tornado reports since May 6, and there hasn't been a day with more than 20 reports in nearly a month (April 20). Chris Dolcehas been a senior digital meteorologist with weather.com for nearly 15 years after beginning his career with The Weather Channel in the early 2000s.
