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Severe Weather Outlook Tuesday

This was posted after completing the Forecast Video.

The Storm Prediction Center has outlooked a slight risk of severe weather for today and tonight for parts of southwestern Iowa. The main threat with any storms that do fire will be from large hail.

Here is what the SPC is saying about the threat area.

AN UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH WILL MOVE INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS TODAY AS AN UPPER-LEVEL LOW CLOSES OFF OVER SW SD AND NRN NEB. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP JUST AHEAD OF THE UPPER-LEVEL SYSTEM IN THE EXIT REGION OF THE MID-LEVEL JET THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SRN NEB AND NRN KS. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD SPREAD NEWD INTO THE OMAHA AREA EARLY THIS EVENING. FORECAST SOUNDINGS FROM NEAR KEARNEY NEB ENEWD TO NEAR OMAHA AT 00Z HAVE SBCAPE VALUES AROUND 1000 J/KG WITH 75 KT OF DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES AROUND 7.5 C/KM. THIS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR A LARGE HAIL THREAT.