European model storm forecast for 8 p.m. Wednesday. (PivotalWeather.com) An unusually strong late-winter storm is predicted to explosively intensify in the western Plains on Tuesday into Wednesday, unleashing flooding rains, severe storms, howling winds and blizzard conditions in the middle of the nation. The zone from Texas north through the Dakotas and Minnesota will probably be hit the hardest. Roaring, potentially damaging winds will affect an enormous area. High-wind watches have been posted from southeastern New Mexico through Nebraska. Gusts are expected to reach 60 mph late Tuesday into Wednesday, and up to 80 to 90 mph in the high terrain. Zone under high-wind watch for Tuesday and Wednesday. (National Weather Service) “Models remain consistent developing one of the more dynamic systems I have seen in quite some time for Kansas” midweek, wrote a forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Wichita . The forecaster explained that the […]