Southern Plains Severe Threat

Severe weather will again impact the southern Plains today as an area of lowpressure slowly moves eastward. Severe thunderstorms will rumble from westernKansas to central and eastern Texas, and these storms will bring the potentialfor damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 mph, torrential downpours, large hail,and isolated tornadoes. Travel will be impacted both by ground and through theair as the strongest storms approach Dallas and Houston during theafternoon.Farther north across Oklahoma and Kansas, the storms will be slower to moveeastward, resulting in the threat of severe weather anytime today. Anyonetraveling on interstates 70, 35 or 40 will have to be prepared for a slowercommute as thunderstorms impact these areas throughout the day.