Kathryn Prociv

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Evan Bush |Maggie Vespa |Samira Puskar |Kathryn Prociv

By , and The National Weather Service’s reduction in weather balloon launches left forecasters on shaky ground last week as the central U.S. got hammered with hail and tornadoes, outside meteorologists told NBC News. Severe storms brought dozens of tornadoes to the central U.S. starting Thursday, snarling Easter weekend travel. Twisters were reported in Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska, and the storm system brought several inches of snow to parts of Colorado and baseball-sized hail to Wisconsin.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Marlene Lenthang |Kathryn Prociv

Five million people are at risk of storms Thursday across eastern Nebraska, northern Missouri, most of Iowa and southern Minnesota, with hazards including very large hail up to 2 inches in diameter, damaging winds and possible tornadoes. The severe weather will continue into the Easter weekend for large sections of the country, as a cold front pushing south through the West and central U.S. brings heavy snow and rain, according to the National Weather Service.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Minyvonne Burke |Kathryn Prociv

Frigid temperatures still gripped much of the United States on Wednesday as 55 million people in parts of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast remain under frost and freeze alerts. Temperatures are set to 10 to 25 degrees below average, leading to chilly weather over the next few days for areas east of the Mississippi River. The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said in a Monday post on X that cold weather precautions should be taken.

2 months ago | cnbc.com | Marlene Lenthang |Kathryn Prociv

Heavy rain will drench the Northeast on Monday as several states are reeling from last week's powerful spring storms that unleashed major flooding and left at least 21 people dead. Last week's storms wreaked havoc over the Midwest and the mid-South and later turned east. One person died in Arkansas, two in Kentucky, two in Georgia, two in Indiana, three in Missouri, 10 in Tennessee and one in Mississippi.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Marlene Lenthang |Kathryn Prociv

A deadly multiday storm system that has unleashed tornadoes and heavy rainfall will continue to batter the Midwest and the mid-South on Friday, in what forecasters describe as a "catastrophic and potentially historic flash flood event."The storm system has already wreaked havoc across multiple states, spawning devastating tornadoes in Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri that left homes in piles of debris and led to downpours triggering severe flooding in multiple states.