AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Kansas after a day of severe storms on Oct. 3, as the threat for severe storms shifted to other nearby states.
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00:00 we want to get an update on the severe weather threat. For that we head out to
00:02 meteorologist Tony Laubach, who's keeping an eye on the storms in central
00:07 Kansas. I can hear that wind blowing out there, Tony. I know it's been a very
00:10 busy day for you on the plains. What have you seen and what do you expect to
00:14 see as the night progresses?
00:16 Mhm.
00:18 Well, Kevin, it is still very busy. You'll probably see a few lightning
00:23 flashes behind me is kind of another line of storms is developing off to the
00:26 west. I'm currently in the town of ST john. This is south of the town of
00:30 Great Bend in central Kansas. So we're northwest of Wichita about an hour and
00:34 a half or so. And we're right now watching the next round of storms to
00:38 develop now, believe it or not, despite the number of storms going on in Kansas
00:43 right now, we currently do not have any warnings in the state of Kansas. It's
00:46 not the state same and elsewhere, especially as you get up further into
00:49 Nebraska. But I want to take you to one of the bigger storms of the day. This
00:53 one that came through the larnit area. Now these storms were moving. I missed
00:57 the summertime, Kevin. These storms normally move at 10 50 miles an hour in
01:01 the summer where they're moving at 60 MPH today. So there hasn't been a lot
01:06 in the way of keeping up with these storms. So this storm moved through the
01:09 larnit area, dropped up to baseball sized hail, even some three inch hail
01:12 reported with that storm. But like most of the storms that we've seen so far
01:17 today, a lot of these really kind of got monstrously severe. And then as
01:21 they cycled down, they never quite cycled back up again. That's why we
01:24 currently are without any severe warnings within the state of Kansas
01:27 right now, as a lot of these storms are currently subsevere, but they
01:31 definitely looked pretty impressive. Is there filled the skies? This was the
01:35 second round of storms I caught. You saw some of the earlier stuff I shot out
01:39 of Oakley, Kansas that had some of the lightning with it with that as well. So
01:42 now we're waiting for the third round of storms to farm along this cold front.
01:46 We do still have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect that goes until 11
01:50 o'clock tonight, central time. So we're not done yet with the severe weather
01:54 threat, but I think we are starting to wind things down a little bit. Tornado
01:58 potential remains low. It's been pretty much the case throughout the day. Today
02:01 it's gonna be a large hail damaging wind threat overnight tonight, and
02:04 then we're gonna reload and do it again tomorrow. Further south, Kevin into
02:08 Texas and Oklahoma. So we're not done yet. The severe weather second season
02:12 well underway. You got it, Tony. It's been very busy in Kansas and Nebraska
02:17 and even Texas today, and that threat will shift a bit to the east and
02:20 southeast tomorrow, including Dallas. There could be travel delays late
02:24 tomorrow in Big D, and I want to show you what's happening with the radar
02:27 picture. There are a lot of severe thunderstorm warnings going on across
02:31 eastern Nebraska, just outside of Lincoln, just northwest of Omaha. These
02:35 storms have a history of producing 60 to 80 mile an hour winds and up to
02:40 baseball sized hail. So that's a serious threat now moving a little bit
02:44 farther south into Kansas, where Tony was just reporting from. We've also
02:48 heard from Reed Timmer earlier in the in Accuweather Prime. He's located west
02:52 of Wichita, and what we're watching here is he's back building thunderstorms in
02:56 this zone right in here. And the question is, will these develop into
03:01 storms that that blossom and eventually become severe? So we've got Reed and
03:06 Tony out there are watching that threat also farther south into Texas. These
03:10 storms have been hail producers with some baseball sized hail. Also a lot of
03:15 flash flood warnings here, folks. We've had 23 inches of rain in just an hour
03:20 or two, so that will give you problems in the Lone Star State or really almost
03:24 any state. So that's the story in Texas.