Thunderstorms, damaging winds and giant hail are anticipated in the Plains beginning on Monday earlier than shifting throughout elements of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, the South and the Midwest, the National Weather Service stated.

Severe thunderstorms are anticipated primarily on Monday evening throughout the southern and central Great Plains. Tornadoes are doable, the Weather Service stated.

Marc Chenard, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md., stated giant hail was the greatest risk from the storms.

The storms may produce baseball-size hail and winds of 60 to 80 miles per hour, the Weather Service stated.

“There will be some areas of heavy rain, as well,” Mr. Chenard stated. “There could be some localized areas of flash flooding.”

Storms are doable on Monday from Texas to South Dakota, with the next threat of extreme climate from northern Texas to western Oklahoma and elements of Nebraska and Kansas.

One space beneath an enhanced threat — a stage three out of 5 — covers a inhabitants of greater than 1.5 million folks and embody the cities of Lincoln, Neb., Manhattan, Kan., and Grand Island, Neb.

A bigger space of the Plains was beneath a slight threat — a stage two out of 5 — for extreme climate, masking hundreds of thousands of different folks.

On Tuesday, the storms are anticipated to maneuver throughout the japanese a part of the Plains into the central states, posing a threat from Northeast Texas into Iowa and Illinois. Several rounds of extreme storms are anticipated throughout the day in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.

Mr. Chenard stated that tornadoes had been doable on Monday and Tuesday.

“There is not a really high threat on Monday, but there is some anywhere from North Texas up into Nebraska,” he stated. “And on Tuesday, a slightly higher risk from northern Missouri into central Iowa.”

As the storms hit the central states, there will even be scorching, dry and windy climate that places Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas at excessive wildfire threat.

More than 1.7 million folks had been in an space deemed at “critical” threat of wildfire on Monday, together with these in El Paso and Las Cruces, N.M.