2 High Risk Areas, Severe Weather Outbreak Likely

Summary

There have been at least 95 preliminary Tornado Reports.

 A rare High Risk has been issued for two separate areas including portions of Southeastern Iowa, Illinois, Southeast Arkansas, Western Tennessee, and Northern Mississippi. Prepare now for a particularly dangerous situation within the High and Moderate Risk Areas!

Strong, long lived, potentially violent tornadoes are likely in the High Risk Pink Areas, this is a tornado driven High Risk upgrade with a 30% hatched significant tornado threat! An isolated QCLS tornado or two cannot be ruled out over the Ohio Valley, but due to the lack of instability from rounds of showers and thunderstorms, the storms will be approaching at nighttime. The storms will begin to weaken once they approach areas along and east of I-65.

45% hatched significant damaging wind threat stretching from Eastern Iowa and includes a large portion of Illinois and Indiana.

Here is the hail threat which has also come up in intensity.

Strong winds are likely outside of thunderstorms for a large area. A Wind Advisory has been issued.

* WHAT..Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts of 40 to 50 mph expected

* WHERE.Southern Indiana and central Kentucky

* WHEN...From 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ to 5 PM EDT /4 PM CDT/ Saturday

* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result

A Wind Advisory means that wind gusts of over 40 mph are expected. Winds this strong can make driving difficult.. especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

   * Tornado Watch for portions of 
     East-central and southeastern Illinois
     Western and central Indiana
     Western and central Kentucky
     Extreme southwestern Lower Michigan
     Lake Michigan

   * Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 700 PM
     until 200 AM CDT.

   * Primary threats include...
     A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible
     Widespread damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 80 mph likely
     Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
     inches in diameter possible