From ABC News
The midwest is bracing itself for an outbreak of violent weather today that could be “life-threatening,” according to forecasters.
Baseball-sized hail and damaging 70 mph winds are expected to whip through a handful of states.
A warning was issued Friday for parts of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
Oklahoma and Kansas are expected to be the hardest hit, according to a rare high risk warning issued Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center.
Paul Walker, an Accuweather senior meteorologist, told ABC News that a warning two days in advance of a storm was unusual and cautioned that the weekend “should be particularly dangerous.”
Oklahoma had its first brush with the severe weekend weather on Friday when at least one tornado ripped through the town of Norman, where the University of Oklahoma is located, leaving 19 people hurt with “bumps and bruises” and a trail of property damage…(read more
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