COLUMBUS, Ohio – There is a chance central Ohio could experience some severe summer weather in advance of some very fall-like temperatures.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center has placed about half of the Columbus area, along with all of western and northwestern Ohio, under a slight risk for severe storms along a cold front stretching from lower Michigan to Missouri.
A few severe storms could develop late this afternoon and a line of storms with damaging winds may march through central Ohio around midnight, ABC6/FOX 28 meteorologist Dana Turtle says.
A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for part of central Ohio until 9:00 Thursday morning.
Daytime high temperatures will drop from the mid-80’s Wednesday to the low 70’s on Thursday and overnight lows could be in the 40’s by Saturday night.
Southern lower Michigan could see severe thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon and evening, with possible damaging winds and heavy rains.
Crews are mopping up from Monday’s pouring rain and rushing runoff in southern Nevada but it’s still going to be a day of disruption and detours for tourists and truckers who would normally use a closed stretch of busy I-15 where intense flash flooding caused the road to crumble into chunks.