KOAM TV 7 Joplin and PittsburgThursday Weather Update June 23rd

Thursday Weather Update June 23rd

Good Wednesday Everyone,

The first part of Thursday will be a nice day with highs in the 80s and partly sunny skies so enjoy mother nature's nice smiles today.  

A Slight Risk of Severe weather possible Thursday into Friday:

I am keeping our watches and warnings map posted because we will see the returning chance of severe storms over the area mainly Thursday into Friday with the best chances of storms being from around the Thursday evening time through Friday afternoon and again Friday overnight. 

We will also have a pattern of scattered afternoon and evening storms return to the region for the next several days. We are in the Summer now, so scattered storms are typical this time of year.

**Right now it still appears that some clusters of storms will appear over the region tonight anytime between the early evening hours to early Friday morning as a warm front continues to lift and modify over the region. The primary threat continues to the hail, winds, lightning, and heavy rain that will be associated with some of these scattered and clustered areas of storms. I expect the worst to be a severe thunderstorm warning in any part of our viewing area at best, however with any storms, you can NEVER rule out a tornado. The threat for tornadoes is low. After warm humid air sets in over the area, we will have scattered storms for the next few days, mainly in the afternoon an evening hours.

Here is today's weather story:

Any Watches and Warnings will be displayed here:

 Here is the current regional radar in motion:

Latest SPC Map For Severe Weather Potential Thursday into Friday:

Now if you want the interactive radar here is the link.

http://www.koamtv.com/category/191239/sky-watch-interactive-radar

Here is a look at your latest 7-day forecast.

I will do a more extensive blog with a pattern and long range update.  The last one I did I messed up on one of my maps and want to make sure I get that fixed.  Have a great Monday everyone.

Doug

June (26th-July 2nd):

Temperatures warming right back up at the beginning of the week.  I think we will be mainly dry until thunderstorms chances for the middle of the week.  Then we should be mainly dry late in the week and towards the weekend.  Temperatures will stay warm all week if not hot.

Severe threat:  slight(Tuesday-Thursday) 

July (3rd-9th):

 A warm start to the week with thunderstorm chances returning for the second half of the weekend and the holiday.  We will see a brief break, but then chances return late in the week.  I think this will be another set-up where a front just hangs out near us giving us those thunderstorm chances.  I also expect temperatures to stay on the warm to hot side through the week.

Severe threat:  Slight(Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday)  

July (10th-16th):

I think most of this week will be on the hot side.  We will see slight chances for thunderstorms mid and late week as a frontal boundary hangs out near the 4-state area.

Severe threat:  Slight(Wednesday-Friday)