KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI — A Level 3 of 5 severe weather outbreak is underway today Saturday June 13 across Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, with damaging wind gusts exceeding 75 mph identified as the headline threat as storms fire ahead of a cold front this afternoon and clump into damaging lines through the evening hours across Wichita, Kansas City, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City.
Level 3 Core Centered on Wichita Kansas City and Western Missouri
The Ryan Hall severe weather outlook updated June 13 at 9:10 AM ET shows a Level 3 red core centered directly over Wichita, Kansas City, and western and southwest Missouri. The highest risk shading extends from Tulsa and Oklahoma City northward through Wichita and Kansas City and into the St. Louis corridor, placing millions of residents across the central plains in the bull’s-eye of today’s severe weather outbreak.
Level 2 orange shading surrounds the core, covering Omaha, Chicago, Madison, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, and Memphis across a broad multi-state footprint.
75 MPH Wind Gusts the Headline Threat With Multiple Rounds Likely
Damaging straight-line wind gusts exceeding 75 mph are the dominant hazard as storms consolidate into lines through the evening hours. Forecasters are explicitly warning that multiple rounds of storms are likely today, meaning residents should not assume the first storm passing through is the last one.
Leftover spin from overnight storms hanging across Oklahoma and Kansas will help trigger fresh convection this afternoon as heat builds ahead of the approaching cold front. Large hail and a few tornadoes are also on the table, primarily during the late afternoon into evening hours across western and southwest Missouri as winds aloft increase.
Cold Front Triggers Fresh Storm Development This Afternoon
The interaction of overnight storm outflow boundaries with afternoon heating and the approaching cold front creates the mechanism for multiple organized severe storm rounds across Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma today. Storms firing in the afternoon are expected to clump into organized lines by evening, maximizing the damaging wind threat across the Level 3 corridor.
Residents across Wichita, Kansas City, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City must remain weather-alert through the entire afternoon and evening with multiple warning responses potentially required.
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