article_snippet.sent: The Midwest is bracing The Midwest for worse to come after a monster storm impacted a 1,500-mile arc with 10 reported tornadoes, grapefruit-sized hail and winds of up to 80 mph on Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: Strong storms rumbled through the Southern Plains early on Thursday, missing major population centers but offering a preview of bad weather that could hit Chicago, Detroit and other big cities in The Midwest later in the day.
article_snippet.sent: A tornado moves into southwestern Kansas bringing high winds and hail: Strong storms rumbled through the Southern Plains early on Thursday, missing major population centers but offering a preview of bad weather that could hit Chicago, Detroit and other big cities in The Midwest later in the day .
article_snippet.sent: Tornadoes were reported on Wednesday and early Thursday in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, but Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma saw minimal damage.
article_snippet.sent: Severe thunderstorms packing 80mph winds and large hail made Severe thunderstorms packing 80mph winds and large hail way across central Missouri on Wednesday afternoon, including several capable of producing tornadoes.
article_snippet.sent: Weather spotters reported a funnel cloud near Potosi in eastern Missouri at 3:35 p.m., while an hour earlier the Bates County emergency manager reported a tornado in southwest Missouri that destroyed a 60-foot machine shop.
article_snippet.sent: A driver in a lifted four wheel drive truck negotiates the deep flood waters  after a severe thunderstorm and tornado warning passed through the northeast side of Monroe Count east of Bloomington, Ind. Pea and marble-sized hail: A supercell produced a tornado in Northwest Oklahoma and close to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, causing damaging winds, hail and funnels .
highlights_snippet.sent: Severe thunderstorms packing 80mph winds and large hail already made their way across central Missouri on Wednesday .
  