'MCS' Season for Oklahoma, Kansas and the Ozarks

SOUTHERN PLAINS - Strong to severe thunderstorms remain possible in the southern Plains over the next few days as storms ride a ridge of high pressure. This will target the same areas through the end of the week to see severe weather. Due to high levels of Gulf moisture, storms firing off the Rockies, a storm boundary in the southern Plains, and an increasing low-level jet at night, the severe risk for these areas is strongest after dark and into the overnight hours.

On Thursday morning, an MCS or cluster of thunderstorms will be ongoing from the overnight storms.

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As these storms move over northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas they will continue to move south and run into more energy and moisture from afternoon heating as they continue through the region. On Friday, storms appear to pop back in along the frontal boundary Friday afternoon and spread eastward into the Ozarks and Ohio Valley later in the afternoon and evening.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a SLIGHT (level 2 out of 5) risk for severe storms across Kansas, Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, Missouri, and Arkansas for Thursday.

The SPC has also issued an outlook for severe weather across the same areas for Friday, but at a MARGINAL level (1 out of 5).

These storms will train rain over the same areas, which will lead to a flooding risk in some of the same spots that have already dealt with flooding earlier this week. For more on the flooding risk, read this related article on the flood potential.