Unsettled Weather to Continue This Week...

While I don't see any "major" severe weather "outbreaks" in the offing for this week, there will be several opportunities for strong to locally severe storms across portions of mainly the southcentral and southeastern part of the country...

For today, the primary threat will extend across a small pocket of the central Plains, mainly across southern Kansas and Oklahoma:

Isolated to widely scattered strong to severe storms are likely to form along and either side of a cold front that will be making its way across the area later this afternoon and into this evening.  Large hail is the primary threat, although an isolated tornado is also possible.

By Tuesday, the front will progress to the Southeast, with isolated to widely scattered strong to locally severe storms possible along and either side of it once again:

Hail and strong wind gusts are the primary threats for tomorrow, although once again an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out with any isolated storm that is able to become well organized.

Rainfall in excess of 1 inch will be fairly widespread this week, from the Midwest into the central and southern Plains, with several pockets of precipitation in excess of 2 inches from Kansas and Oklahoma into Arkansas and southern Missouri:

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