Amateur Storm Chaser: Andrew Osborne

08/10/2026

🚨 SEVERE WEATHER FORECAST FOR TODAY (8/10) 🚨

The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has issued:

⚠️"Slight Risk" ⚠️…

for severe thunderstorms today and tonight across two primary corridors: the Midwest into the Mid-Atlantic, and parts of the Northern and Central Plains. These storms will be driven by a belt of enhanced upper-level winds moving across the northern half of the country, which will bring several disturbances that can trigger severe weather throughout the day and into the night.

Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic ⚠️

In the region stretching from Illinois to the Mid-Atlantic, early morning showers will likely give way to stronger storms by midday, particularly around the upper Ohio Valley, Pennsylvania, and western New York. By late afternoon, another intense round of thunderstorms is expected to develop and track from Illinois into Indiana and Ohio. Fueled by high humidity and strong atmospheric instability, these storms are expected to organize into supercells or bowing segments. The main hazards will be damaging wind gusts and large hail, though an isolated tornado or two is also possible.

The Plains and Iowa ⚠️

Meanwhile, moist winds flowing into the Northern and Central Plains will create a corridor of strong-to-extreme instability across the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas. In the Dakotas, isolated evening storms could produce large hail and damaging winds, with the potential to merge into a larger, wind-driven storm system overnight as they move toward northwestern Iowa. Further south, scattered late-afternoon and evening storms are expected to develop near a surface trough over western Nebraska, northeastern Colorado, and Kansas, bringing a localized threat of strong wind gusts and hail as they move east and southeast.

08/10/2026

Rain wrapped tornado! Can see it in the video rain shielding the power flashes as it takes things out!

Illinois getting ravaged overnight! Be safe out there to all! 🙏🏾

08/10/2026

🚨PEORIA ILLINOIS!

YOU ARE WITHIN THIS TORNADO WARNING!

BE WEATHER READY! 🚨

08/10/2026

🚨 TORNADIC STORM EAST OF AMBOY ILLINOIS! HEADING NORTHEASTERLY TOWARDS THE AREA NORTH OF PAW PAW AND I-39 EVENTUALLY!

08/10/2026

🚨 TORNADIC STORMS ARE FORMING IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS!

🚨 TAKE SHELTER IN PLACES LIKE:

WYANET
PRINCETON
HENNEPIN
LASALLE/PERU

08/09/2026

🚨 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TODAY (8/9) 🚨

⚠️⚠️ The Midwest Threat ⚠️⚠️

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms across parts of the Midwest today. Morning storms in southern Minnesota and eastern Iowa are expected to track eastward toward the Lake Michigan area, carrying a threat of damaging wind gusts. As the afternoon heats up and the atmosphere destabilizes, additional severe storms may develop across northern Illinois and Indiana. Extreme instability in this region means damaging winds will be the primary hazard, though large hail and an isolated tornado are also possible through the evening.

⚠️ The Dakotas Threat ⚠️

A separate area of severe weather is expected later today across the Dakotas and western Nebraska. By this evening, shifting winds and an incoming frontal boundary are forecast to trigger scattered thunderstorms. These storms are expected to begin as intense supercells capable of producing large hail and damaging winds. As the night progresses, these individual storms could merge into larger clusters, which would increase the risk for widespread, damaging wind gusts into the overnight hours.

🚨 BE WEATHER READY TODAY MIDWEST!! 🚨

08/08/2026

🚨 SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK TODAY (8/8) 🚨

⚠️ Today's weather outlook indicates a marginal risk for severe thunderstorms across three primary regions: the northern and central Plains extending into the Upper Mississippi Valley, parts of the Mid-Atlantic, and southern Arizona. The most significant potential for severe weather will occur this afternoon and evening.

⚠️ In the central and northern Plains, ongoing morning showers—primarily across Nebraska and South Dakota—may bring an isolated hail threat before weakening. As the day progresses, the forecast becomes increasingly complex. Southerly surface winds will draw humid air northward, creating a moderately to strongly unstable environment. However, warm temperatures in the mid-levels of the atmosphere will likely act as a "cap," suppressing widespread storm formation and making the exact timing and location of new development highly uncertain.

⚠️ If thunderstorms do manage to break through the atmospheric cap late this afternoon or overnight, they will likely initiate near a surface trough in the Plains or along a cold front dropping into the Dakotas and Minnesota. These storms will carry the primary threats of isolated large hail and damaging wind gusts.

⚠️Additionally, hot and dry surface conditions across Colorado and the western portions of Kansas and Nebraska could support high-based thunderstorms capable of generating strong, damaging outflow winds.

08/06/2026

🚨 SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR TODAY/TONIGHT (8/6) 🚨

The Storm Prediction Center has outlined a Marginal Risk for severe thunderstorms across three primary regions of the United States for today into tomorrow morning. The overarching threats across these areas are generally isolated severe wind gusts and large hail.

⚠️ Southern and Central Plains into the Ozarks ⚠️

Forecasters have downgraded the threat level in this region to a Marginal Risk due to weak atmospheric forcing, which lowers confidence in widespread afternoon storm development. However, an isolated hail and damaging wind threat persists along a slow-moving surface boundary. The chances for scattered thunderstorms will actually increase later this evening and overnight across parts of Kansas and Missouri as a low-level jet stream strengthens.

⚠️ Carolinas into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast ⚠️

As daytime heating warms surface temperatures into the 80s, thunderstorms are expected to develop in the Appalachian foothills and move east-northeast toward the coast. While mid-level atmospheric conditions are not highly favorable, a very moist lower atmosphere will create moderate instability. The primary severe weather threat in this region will be occasional damaging winds caused by heavy, water-loaded downdrafts, with the highest instability located southward into the western Carolinas.

⚠️ Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota ⚠️

A narrow corridor of moderate instability and low-level moisture is present along a weak surface trough in the High Plains. Similar to the Southern Plains, confidence in storms actually forming is quite low due to a lack of strong atmospheric lift. Nevertheless, if any thunderstorms do manage to initiate within this unstable airmass, they will be capable of producing isolated severe wind gusts and large hail.

08/06/2026

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Downbursts of 75+ MPH winds expected across northern Oklahoma and 60+ MPH downbursts across southern Missouri and northern Arkansas!

I would recommend keeping up with Storm Chaser Stephen Jones! He is amazing!

ISOLATED DOWNBURSTS OF 75 MPH+‼️ Across portions of Northern this evening IF Storms do develop along a Stationary Front from 6 p.m.- 11 p.m. this evening!! A better chance for rain and storms will exist across , but latent heat release should not be as high as across Northern OK, so only 60-65MPH will be possible across / .

Sadly, not a lot of you will even see a storm this evening, let alone some much-needed rainfall. But any storm that does develop can be severe with these powerful downbursts!!

08/06/2026