National Weather Force has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch effective now through midnight for the eastern half of Kansas.
A system coming out of the west will move into the region today. Thunderstorms along a frontal boundary moving from west-northwest to east-southeast will form.. These storms can have the power to produce the chance of a tornado, mainly in East-Central Kansas. As these storms move southeastward through the watch area with time, they will gain strengthen and produce damaging wind gusts as well. Storms will move out of the southeast corner of the watch area after midnight, ending the watch period.
In addition to the damaging winds; large hail, flooding, and that tornado risk will remain, but it will not be a full tornado watch. If I had a tornado watch for isolated tornado activity, it would be issued as a Tornado Advisory, which is being thought of for future alerts.
