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Huge Hail, Strong Winds Slam Midwest on Monday

4 May 2020, 12:34 pm

A series of severe thunderstorms rocked parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas with up to baseball-sized hail, 70 mph winds and several tornado warnings on Monday.

Take a look at just some of the dramatic footage from Monday’s severe storms, many of which took place on Monday morning:

As of Monday afternoon, up to 80 mph winds had been recorded in parts of Missouri, and up to softball-sized hail had been measured in Arkansas.

 

As of Monday afternoon, around 40,000 customers remained without power in Missouri and another 4,000 were in the dark in Kansas, according to power data tracking website poweroutage.us.

Severe weather alerts remain in place into Monday evening. Stay with WeatherNation for the latest on these dangerous storms.

About the author
Chris Bianchi
Chris doesn't remember a time when that he didn't love the weather. When he was five years old, he wrote his first words, "Partly cloudy", in Ms. Benn's kindergarten class. According to Chris, it's been a love affair ever since, from teaching himself how to read forecast models at age 12, to landing at WeatherNation. Growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, he started to go after his lifelong drea... Load Morem of becoming a meteorologist by predicting whether or not there would be snow days - turning him into Greenwich High School's "defacto weatherman". He turned that snow day-predicting website into a front page story a local newspaper, which in turn earned him a look at WABC-TV in New York, where Chris did the weather live on-air at the age of 16. He attended Boston University, where he continued being a "weather nerd", performing weather updates on the campus radio and TV stations, and doing the daily forecasts for the student newspaper. Following his studies at BU, Chris worked at Mile High Sports and ESPN Denver for four years while pursuing his certification in Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. Chris is a huge sports fan, rooting for the Rockies, Nuggets, Broncos, Avalanche and UConn. He frequently find links between sports and weather, including an investigative analysis he did in 2013, finding trends between Peyton Manning's play and game time temperature (he doesn't like the cold). Chris also enjoys running, playing any sport, socializing and periodically overeating at all-you-can-eat buffets.

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