IoN Weather Friday March 15 2024 Colorado snow storm winding down, Texas Rain , NE not as mild

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Heavy snow continues into tonight for the Central Rockies and adjacent
foothills/High Plains before gradually tapering off through Friday.
A long-duration event of mountain snow and lower-elevation rain
expected over the Four Corners region into the weekend.
Severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall expected to push
southeastward from the Southern Plains/Mississippi Valley Thursday evening
further into Texas and the Southeast region on Friday, continuing in Texas
Saturday
Mild weather continues from the central to the eastern U.S. going into
the weekend
An amplifying upper-level trough/closed low continues to dig southward
into the western U.S. with a cold airmass settling in across the region.
Moisture flowing in ahead of the trough continues to lead to very heavy
snow over portions of the Central Rockies into the adjacent High Plains,
particularly along the Front Range. Snow rates upwards of 2"/hr will bring
several more inches of snow through tonight with storm total snowfall of
1-2 feet, locally as much as 2-4 feet. Gusty winds leading to blowing snow
will make travel very dangerous to impossible, with many of the local
interstates already closed. The snow should begin to gradually taper off
Thursday night and into Friday morning. Snowfall will then shift a bit to
the southwest over the Four Corners region as the upper-low settles in
overhead for the next couple of days. Waves of heavy snow will bring 12"+
of snowfall to the higher elevations of the regional mountain ranges into
this weekend. Lower elevations of the Four Corners will see a mix of rain
and snow, though any accumulations should remain limited, with rain also
spreading to the Desert Southwest. Some thunderstorms will also be
possible. Precipitation chances should continue at least through Saturday
evening.
To the east, widespread showers and thunderstorms will continue along and
head of a wavy cold front stretching from the Great Lakes/Midwest
southwestward through the Middle Mississippi Valley and into the Southern
Plains. The Storm Prediction Center has outlined an Enhanced Risk of
severe weather (level 3/5) from north Texas northeastward into eastern
Oklahoma, northwestern Arkansas, and southern Missouri through tonight
where the best combination of strong buoyancy and both low-level and
deep-layer wind shear are expected to lead to some supercell storms.
Storms will likely begin to cluster into the evening bringing more of a
large hail and damaging wind threat, though a few tornadoes will remain
possible with any remaining discrete/semi-discrete storms, including the
potential for a strong tornado. A broader Slight Risk (level 2/5) is in
place from the Southern Plains northeastward through the Middle
Mississippi Valley/Mid-South and into the Ohio Valley where some more
isolated instances of large hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes are
possible. In addition, a southerly influx of deep moisture from the Gulf
of Mexico along with storms clustering/motions increasingly parallel to
the frontal boundary will bring the threat of some very heavy downpours
and the risk of scattered instances of flash flooding, with a Slight Risk
of Excessive Rainfall (level 2/4) overlapping the Enhanced severe risk,
and continuing downstream into the Mid-South as storms move eastward
overnight.
Elsewhere, a clipper system dropping southeastward from Canada into the
Upper Midwest/Great Lakes by Friday evening will bring some light to
moderate rain/snow shower chances into Saturday. Temperature-wise, above
average highs will continue to bring an early taste of Spring to most of
the central and eastern U.S. heading into the weekend.