Heads Up: Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas

Update: 10:30pm Wednesday

At this point, the forecasts below look good. 

Increasingly, it appears that a period of excessive rain will develop over part of the area outlined in red. The thunderstorms with heavy rain will begin tonight and with continue off and on until Saturday morning. 

While it is too soon to pinpoint the area that will receive the heaviest rain, I want to bring this to your attention as the area of maximum rain could be more than five inches. 

The NWS has issued a flash flood watch for Thursday night for the area shaded in green.