"Storm Trackers," children 7 to 9 will learn about clouds, hail, tornadoes and weather prediction.
That is where many of the nation's most violent thunderstorms are spawned, the kind that drop baseball-size hail, tornadoes, torrents of rain and furious winds across the Great Plains states.
Texas ranked as the state with most expensive insurance premiums, thanks to wind, rain, hail, tornados and hurricanes.
Over a region from the Kansas/Colorado border to Minnesota, Carey and Rutledge (2003) found that the properties of CG lightning flashes produced from severe storms during warm seasons (i.e., large hail or tornado producing) were different from those produced by non-severe storms.
Southwest Wisconsin has a slight risk of tornadoes for Saturday into Sunday, with a chance for thunderstorms, hail and tornadoes for the whole state Sunday, Van Speybroeck said.
Some supercells produce rain, lightning, hail and tornadoes; some produce no rain or lightning but pound crops with large hail; others produce floods and tornadoes but no lightning and hail.
Tsunamis of grasshoppers devoured anything that drought, hail and tornadoes had spared.
The wide open spaces of the Midwest aid the formation of storms with big hail and tornados.
Supercells are the least common type of thunderstorm, and can produce severe weather, including high winds, large hail - and tornadoes.
On Sunday, the center tightened the potential target area, warning of a "threat for very large hail and tornadoes" from central Oklahoma into west central Missouri.
