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Severe hail and wind could bring tornadoes to parts of Iowa, Northern Missouri, Northwest Illinois, Southwest Wisconsin, and far southwest Minnesota.
The National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center said Tuesday is set to see several thunderstorms in yet another bout of severe weather.
It said in its forecast discussion for Tuesday: "An outbreak of severe thunderstorms, including the potential for strong tornadoes, is probable today, peaking in the afternoon to early evening.
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"The area most likely to be impacted will include the Mid to Lower Missouri Valley across the Mid to Upper Mississippi Valley to the Lake Michigan vicinity."
The places that have been classed as at "moderate" risk, with a 15 percent chance of seeing a tornado, are Madison, Wisconsin, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport in Iowa, along with Rochester in Minnesota.
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Meanwhile, those under an "enhanced" risk, with a 10 percent chance of seeing a tornado, are other parts of Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Waterloo, and Iowa City in Iowa.
Places under "slight" risk warnings, with a 5 percent chance of seeing a tornado, are Chicago, Illinois, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kansas City, Missouri, Omaha, Nebraska, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
And, lastly, areas seen as at "marginal" risk, with a 2 percent chance of seeing a tornado, are Tulsa, Oklahoma; St. Louis, Missouri; Lincoln, Nebraska; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Topeka, Kansas.
On Monday, the NWS posted on X (formerly Twitter): "The Storm Prediction Center is monitoring yet another significant severe weather outbreak possible on Tuesday. Damaging winds, large hail, and a few, possibly strong, tornadoes are likely across portions of the Midwest."
It warned that a "strong tornado" with potential gusts of 75 mph could develop.
Forecasters said: "All forms of severe weather will be possible, including tornadoes (a few of which could be strong), significant wind gusts and large hail."
In the early hours of Tuesday, there was a tornado watch in place covering four counties in Nebraska: Chase, Lincoln, Frontier, and Hayes.
This included the cities of Champion, Curtis, Enders, Eustis, Hayes Center, Imperial, Maywood, North Platte, and Wauneta.
Four counties in Northwest Kansas were also under the same watch (Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, and Rawlins) while three counties in Southwest Nebraska were covered: Dundy, Hitchcock, and Red Willow.
This included the cities of Atwood, Benkelman, Bird City, Culbertson, McCook, Norton, Oberlin, Palisade, St. Francis, Stratton, and Trenton.
The watch was in place until 2:00. a.m. MDT and 3:00 a.m. CDT.
The latest prediction comes after a bout of severe weather across multiple parts of the U.S., including a dangerous derecho warning for the Midwest over the weekend and a catastrophic storm in Texas last week.
At least seven people were killed in the thunderstorm and hundreds of thousands of people were left without power. As of Tuesday, 148,628 people in Texas were still without electricity, according to poweroutage.us.
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