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Tornado Alley looks like it will be finally waking up very soon. In fact, computer models have been consistently showing the potential for something significant beginning around the April 8th time-frame in the Southern Plains. Both the GFS and Euro computer models have been showing a longwave trough setting up to the west of the Plains and eject a series of shortwave troughs onto the Southern Plains and the South. Warm/moist air will stream north from the Gulf of Mexico with the return of Spring time weather across the south will occur over the weekend and into next week. This will mix with a developing surface low coming out of the Rocky Mountains could develop the risk for severe weather across tornado alley. We are becoming more confident that this will take place on April 8th and 9th across the Southern Plains, but it is still too early to define exactly where the biggest risk for severe weather will be. The general area will be from Texas to Kansas and eastward early next week.