⚠ 🌪️ If A Storm Goes Today, It Will Be Severe

Today is the the true version of a boom or bust day.

The atmosphere is primed and ready for severe weather today, the question is, and may remain all day, will there be storms to take advantage of that atmosphere?

An area expanding from Southeast Nebraska through Kansas and into Oklahoma and Texas will have a low to enhanced shot at severe weather today. There will likely be a line of storms take shape along a surging cold front in Kansas — but further south along the dryline feels more interesting as a storm chaser.

Lots of Ingredients Are In Place

There are plenty of ingredients today for severe weather to be sure.

• Dewpoints from the upper 50s to middle 60s are in place this morning across the Central/Southern Plains.

• A potent upper storm system is approaching from the west.

• Accordingly, wind shear will be increasing through the day, with low-level wind shear becoming increasingly favorable for tornadoes if you had the right storm mode.

• However, despite all of this, a strong cap is also in place. This warmer/drier air aloft may keep storms f…