kansas south of the wichita area and then into iowa. that is a new tornado warning. and this unfortunately is going be the scenario as we head into the overnight hours when people are are sleeping. noaa weather radios need to be on and pay close attention to your local fox stations. the severe threat again extending from the midwest down through the big bend of texas with sort of a focus on the red shaded area where we think all of those ingredients are going to come together for the hail, for the damaging winds, long lived tornadoes as well. very destructive tornadoes. we have seen the video all day. damage has been documented in parts of oklahoma and kansas and now as we move into iowa. heading into tomorrow doesn t move much. the system continues to move eastward. affects will little more population. chicago, green bay with the focus on oklahoma city and joplin. just on the anniversary of the
the potential for hail of damaging winds but long lasting and threatening tornadoes. the video you showed out of kansas, that is the type of storm we are going to see throughout the evening and into the overnight, a lot of folks could be caught off guard. it s the overnight people are sleeping and no weather radios on. we ll keep you posted from the extreme weather center. heather: we know you are extremely busy. we ll check back with you. gregg: turning now to the thickening clouds of controversy surrounding the irs in the wake of the admission of targeting conservative political groups. the question everybody is asking now, how far up did this thing go? this after the treasury department, inspector general revealed in hearings this week that the administration was informed during the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign. the administration insisting, though, that the president himself knew nothing about it. that is doing little to dispel
where we have the tornado warning there. then moving into iowa. fort dodge. getting into heavily populated areas here. cities. a tornado warning east of minneapolis that has is since be lifted which is great news. you willunfortunately, we are g into heavily populated areas. damage could be quite severe and extreme in some of the areas as the storms push eastward and they are not letting up unfortunately. taking a look at the severe threat from texas all the weigh up to the midwest, the great lakes with the concentrated risk over the central plains. oklahoma city, joplin, kansas city, a you will of the ingredients favorable for longing lasting large destructive tornadoes. into monday and into the overnight, people need to have the noaa weather radios on if you live in the areas because the storms are coming and you are not going to be able to see
the clash of the two air masses is what is going to give us the potential of severe weather and we have a lot of moisture from the gulf of mexico. that is the fuel that these storms are going to need. our sharp are troughs, our jetstream is going to give us the upper level support that is going to give us the potential for a severe weather outbreak. tornadoes. could see many of them. long tracked. very large. also want to point out a slight risk for severe weather across the southeast. again, this is the main event that is going to happen within the afternoon overnight tonight and into tomorrow. some of the biggest cities really oklahoma city up towards kansas city and joplin, missouri. tulsa as well. ken the worst of the storm again, the worst of the storms into the afternoon and overnight when people are sleeping. keep the noaa weather radios on and keep alert with radio and television. we will keep you posted. the other big story with this is the flooding rainfall across saturated
the way from minnesota back on down even into the parts of wichita and into amarillo. here s the deal. we have all of this weather, we have warm air on one side, cold air on the other, and we haven t had tornadoes this year. we literally had less than half of the tornadoes that we should have had so far this year. so what does that mean. that tells us that all of a sudden, we re about to catch up. the warm and the cold aren t gone. summer and spring are still around the corner. that spring weather has to happen sometime, and it will happen this weekend. that weather will be saturday for parts of nebraska, kansas into iowa, into oklahoma, then sunday, all the way from ohio back into wichita and then monday, probably the bigger cities, that will be chicago into st. louis all the way back into oklahoma city and little rock into arkansas. it is a big event that we haven t seen yet this year. i think people s guards are down and i think we have to worry about this. you have to make sure you