![]() | MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1562 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0204 PM CDT Fri Jul 04 2025 AREAS AFFECTED...eastern Colorado into western Nebraska and Kansas CONCERNING...Severe potential...Watch unlikely VALID 041904Z - 042130Z PROBABILITY OF WATCH ISSUANCE...20 percent SUMMARY...At least isolated storms capable of SEVERE HAIL or strong gusts are likely through the afternoon. DISCUSSION...A surface trough is gradually deepening over eastern CO this afternoon, with moisture wrapping southwestward out of northeast CO. Just east, a very moist air mass exists very near the CO/KS border, with upper 60s F dewpoints into KS. A weak midlevel trough with increasing ....... more |