Severe Weather Outbreak 2024. An outbreak of severe weather — including the potential of large, damaging hail, destructive winds and tornadoes — kicks off thursday across the central states. Accuweather expert meteorologists say 2024 has been a year with relentless rounds of impactful severe weather.

At least five people have been killed by an outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes that began on monday in the plains and tracked through more than a dozen. Dangerous heat for the south;