Today's Severe Weather Threat

The greatest threat today will be tornadoes and damaging thunderstorm winds along with some hail.

Tornadoes

5% is the significant threshold.

Damaging Thunderstorm Winds

Here, 15% is the significant threshold.

AccuWeather Regional Radar at 8:03am shows widespread but non-severe thunderstorms from the eastern Texas Panhandle to Iowa and Wisconsin.

Welcome rains will fall in many areas over the next two and a half days:

I will be chasing the storms later today. You can follow along on twitter @usweatherexpert.