Risk of severe weather stretches across parts of the Midwest on Friday.

Five tornadoes hit the Kansas City area Monday night. Did a change in National Weather Service balloon launches leave forecasters in the dark about the threat for much of the day?

Multiple tornadoes tore through Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin on Friday, leaving heavy damage in Lena, Illinois, and forcing evacuations in Rochester and Marion, Minnesota.

After severe storms damaged communities in the Plains and the Midwest, forecasters warned that storms could bring giant hail, tornadoes and severe wind gusts to the regions again. Authorities in Kansas reported several people with minor injuries after storms passed through on Monday.

Tornadoes and flooding are possible this weekend as roller-coaster weather sweeps the country, with some states experiencing summer-like temperatures as high as 90 degrees despite being in the middle

Severe storms sweep from the Plains to New York with tornado risk, 60 mph winds, and flooding, as Colorado recovers from a sudden deep freeze and mountain snow.

Philadelphia hit 91 degrees on Wednesday afternoon, which is also the first 90-degree day in the City of Brotherly Love this year. New York City also set a daily high record on Wednesday. The Big Apple hit 90 degrees, breaking the previous record of 87 degrees on April 15, 1941.

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The tornado made “like a whirring sound … and I could hear things being ripped off (the house),” one resident said.