04/17/2026
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Mother Nature apparently heard us say that nothing much had changed between forecast updates… so she changed things. And not in a delightful way.
With their 11:30 a.m. update, the Storm Prediction Center felt the need to add a Moderate (4/5) risk area for today’s severe weather threat. And we’re only giving you one guess where that 4/5 ended up parked… yep, right over us (why??). They appear especially worried about both our hail threat and our wind threat. We are being queued up for large-to-giant hail (possibly larger than teacups… which is larger than baseballs) and damaging wind gusts in the 60-80 mph range. But it’s not all doom-and-gloom. They left our tornado threat down in the less-alarming range (still there, but not escalating like the other hazards). Nice of M.N. to show a little restraint… but the rest of that really wasn’t necessary, either.
