Millions of Americans across the central U.S. are bracing for severe storms this coming week.
The National Weather Service reported a major spring storm is expected to hit the Midwest, affecting nearly 70 million Americans.
The storm’s crosshairs will hit Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, and Ohio.
Many states where the April storms will hit will experience historic flooding.
Rare PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Flood Watch for much of Arkansas. Some of the strongest wording you’ll read in a Flood Watch.
“A heavy rainfall event of this magnitude falling within 4 days is an event that happens once in a generation to once in a lifetime”. #ARwx pic.twitter.com/UsaFiYiFuQ
— Collin Gross (@CollinGrossWx) April 1, 2025
Per USA Today:
Millions of people across the central U.S. on Tuesday braced for dangerous bout of severe weather this week following a deadly cross-country storm that’s left hundreds of thousands of homes and business without power in the Midwest.
ADVERTISEMENTA major spring storm is expected to blast the middle of the country with hurricane-force winds, tornadoes and potentially historic flooding beginning Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service. By Wednesday, an area encompassing 70 million people from Texas to Illinois and Ohio will be in the storm’s crosshairs.
Meanwhile, a late-season winter storm on Tuesday unloaded heavy snow and gusty winds across the northern Plains, prompting advisories in the Dakotas and Minnesota. In the Midwest, where a weekend storm spun up tornadoes, over 250,000 homes and businesses were without power as of Tuesday afternoon, with most of the outages being reported in Michigan, according to PowerOutage.us.
Moderate risk has been issued for tomorrows risk across the central and lower Ohio river valley the tornado risk below shows strong to violent tornadoes are possible across the shaded regions pic.twitter.com/d7ApAA04hW
— East Texas Storm Chasers (@PhDStormChasers) April 1, 2025
Check out what CNN reported:
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.Volatile spring weather will kick into high gear this week as a potential severe thunderstorm outbreak and life-threatening flooding loom large for tens of millions of people in the central and eastern United States.
This next severe weather threat comes on the heels of the last, which tore through the central US Sunday, killing seven people, and spread over nearly the entire East Coast Monday. Some areas that were hit hard by those deadly storms – and the destructive storms in mid-March – could yet again be in the path of violent storms late Tuesday through Wednesday.
April is typically when severe thunderstorm season starts to pick up the pace, but destructive weather has already unfolded more often than usual this year. Storms from January through March generated more than 3,200 reports of tornadoes, hail and damaging wind nationwide.
