The coming severe storms appear worse than they did 24 hours ago, said the National Weather Service in Lincoln.

Unlike Thursday, Ed Shimon, the Lincoln office’s warning coordination meteorologist, says there are now two waves of bad weather expected. The evening wave should be more severe than the afternoon’s, but Shimon said not to minimize the risk of the first one, either.

Confidence is building in very impactful a severe situation. Those violent, long-track tornadoes are what triggered the high risk” designation for areas north and west of Springfield. Shimon adds the last time a high risk was forecast was November 2013 – when much of Washington, Ill., was destroyed.

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