Strong Thunderstorms Possible Sunday

A strong upper storm system is headed east after producing tornadoes Thursday in Colorado, Kansas, and Texas. This storm may be responsible for more tornadoes Friday in the Mississippi Valley region. Virginia will begin to feel the impacts of this storm on Saturday with showers overspreading the area along with greater cloud-cover, but our risk for severe storms will arrive on Sunday.

We'll have a surge of low-level moisture from the southwest into Virginia on Sunday as the upper storm system nears. You can see the southwest surface winds into Central Virginia Sunday early afternoon, along with warm temperatures here:

And below is the resulting surge of rising dewpoint temperatures in the Commonwealth, which will approach 65 degrees Sunday afternoon:

At this time, the primary threat in Central Virginia appears to be for damaging winds, but we will be closely monitoring for the additional threat of tornadoes as well. Stay with CBS 6, we'll keep you ahead of the storm!