Weather Alerts For De Soto, IL

Special Weather Statement National Weather Service PADUCAH KY 435 AM CST Sun Dec 28 2025 Jefferson-Wayne IL-Edwards-Wabash-Perry IL-Franklin-Hamilton- White-Jackson-Williamson-Saline-Gallatin-Union-Johnson-Pope- Hardin-Alexander-Pulaski-Massac-Gibson-Pike-Posey-Vanderburgh- Warrick-Spencer-Fulton-Hickman-Carlisle-Ballard-McCracken-Graves- Livingston-Marshall-Calloway-Crittenden-Lyon-Trigg-Caldwell- Union KY-Webster-Hopkins-Christian-Henderson-Daviess-McLean- Muhlenberg-Todd-Perry MO-Bollinger-Cape Girardeau-Wayne MO-Carter- Ripley-Butler-Stoddard-Scott-Mississippi-New Madrid- Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Fairfield, Albion, Mount Carmel, Pinckneyville, West Frankfort, McLeansboro, Carmi, Carbondale, Murphysboro, Herrin, Harrisburg, Shawneetown, Jonesboro, Vienna, Golconda, Elizabethtown, Cairo, Mound City, Metropolis, Fort Branch, Petersburg, Poseyville, Evansville, Boonville, Rockport, Hickman, Clinton, Bardwell, Wickliffe, Paducah, Mayfield, Smithland, Benton, Murray, Marion, Eddyville, Cadiz, Princeton, Morganfield, Dixon, Madisonville, Hopkinsville, Henderson, Owensboro, Calhoun, Greenville, Elkton, Perryville, Marble Hill, Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Piedmont, Van Buren, Doniphan, Poplar Bluff, Bloomfield, Sikeston, Charleston, and New Madrid 435 AM CST Sun Dec 28 2025 /535 AM EST Sun Dec 28 2025/ ...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A strong cold front will approach and move through the Quad State area this afternoon and evening. Ahead of the front, south winds will gust to around 35 mph with a few gusts possibly reaching 40 mph at times. A line of showers and a few thunderstorms will also pass through with the cold front, which may produce brief higher wind gusts. Behind the front, winds will quickly shift to the west, then northwest with gusts to 35 mph possible through or just after midnight. Temperatures will also drop quickly behind the cold front this evening and overnight. Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects, such as holiday yard decorations, this afternoon and evening.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EASTERN MISSOURI INTO WESTERN OHIO SUMMARY Strong thunderstorms may develop over Missouri and Illinois today, and move across parts of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio through evening. A few damaging wind gusts appear to be the primary severe threat. Synopsis An upper low will deepen as it moves from the northern Plains into the upper Great Lakes, with rapidly intensifying mid and high level flow and strong height falls spreading across much of the Midwest. At the surface, low pressure will deepen from northern MO this morning into Lower MI by 00Z, with an intense cold front trailing southwest from the low. By mid afternoon, this front will extend from northern IL into eastern MO and northwest AR, with southerly winds aiding northward moisture transport with dewpoints near 60 F. A warm front will lift across IL, IN, and southern Lower MI as the low develops northeastward. Lift along these boundaries will support scattered thunderstorms, with the greatest probabilities generally near the surface low track from northeast MO into Lower MI. Given strong wind fields, sporadic severe storms may occur. From MO into OH For the morning hours, scattered elevated thunderstorms appear likely from eastern IA across northern IL, IN, and southern Lower MI north of the warm front and in the zone of theta-e advection. Forecast soundings indicate sufficient MUCAPE for perhaps small hail. From midday into the afternoon, SBCAPE over 500 J/kg is forecast ahead of the cold front and near the surface low from eastern MO across central IL and into IN. This is conditionally a favorable area for supercells, though in this case the lack of surface heating along with a cap below 700 mb suggest the bulk of the diurnal convection should be relegated to the cold front, in which case a linear mode seems likely. Still, given hodographs favoring supercells, a few embedded areas of rotation will be possible and a brief tornado cannot be ruled out. Otherwise, damaging winds will be the primary concern