Severe storms possible across eastern Nebraska Tuesday evening

If we see much of anything early on today in southeast Nebraska, it’ll be in the form of some light rain/drizzle. Morning showers were trying to hold together as they moved through central Nebraska, but those won’t amount to much if they do make it here.

The main forcing for some stronger storms later this afternoon will be in central Nebraska, where storms are expected to initiate after about 3-4 p.m. These storms will move southeast through the evening hours, losing strength as they make it into southeast Nebraska by 10-11 p.m. tonight.

There’s higher confidence in seeing these stronger storms turn severe in the Slight (Level 2 of 5), yellow risk below. The latest update of this severe risk today has most of eastern Nebraska included in the better chance to see storms threaten some severe weather. This is an update from the morning show.

Initially though, an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out for those highlighted in green below.

But overall, the primary threats will be damaging wind and hail. Hail could be up to the size of quarters.

The latest risk for damaging wind is as seen below. Damaging winds could be up to 70 mph with any of the healthier storms.

Then for the last few days of this week, the humidity will drop that much more with temperatures remaining on the cooler side of normal.

That’ll feel good after we started this week “feeling like” 115° in Lincoln during Monday afternoon!

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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