The Twin Lakes area is placed under a flood watch Monday leading into 10 Tuesday as we prepare for the potential for severe weather overnight.
KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot News spoke with National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Dennis Cavanaugh to get the latest update on what we can expect. Cavanaugh says that current models show chances for severe weather activity picking up around 10 Monday night with the greatest risks being flooding and damaging winds.
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Dennis Cavanaugh:
We are looking for maybe a couple of rounds. That first round of storms was supposed to develop here late this afternoon, and that looks like it’s thankfully being suppressed by high clouds right now. Assuming that continues, we’ll be looking to the west for storms to congeal into a line over eastern Oklahoma.
Once that takes place, those storms form into a line and start to move east. We’re looking at probably 10 or 11 PM for storms to start to move in to north-central Arkansas, from northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Those storms, the primary threat is going to be straight line winds, maybe some widespread damaging winds, but also the heavy rainfall and the flooding. We do have that flood watch in effect through tomorrow morning, mainly for the threat of two to three inches of rain with some isolated higher amounts.
The biggest risk for tornadoes is actually with any individual storms that might develop out ahead of that line of storms approaching from eastern Oklahoma. If those storms don’t materialize, the tornado threat does get quite a bit smaller. You may have some embedded smaller, weaker tornadoes with that line of storms. The primary threat would be damaging winds, but what we’d be looking for for the tornado threat is if anything can get going out ahead of that line.
So far, it’s not, and that’s a good thing, but we’ll be watching it closely here. If anything develops out ahead of that line, that’s gonna be your primary tornado threat late this afternoon through early this evening.
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