Arkansas Storm Team Weather Blog: Few strong storms possible with heat and humidity

As the heat and humidity continues to build early this week, it will fuel the potential for a few strong to severe storms. This is a very common pattern for this time of year. Hit-or-miss storms can easily build on most summer afternoons. But with very little upper-level support, they are less capable of producing tornadoes.

Monday afternoon heat and humidity will send our heat index soaring into the low 90s. This is the environment in which thunderstorms thrive.

While that's a good thing, these summer storms can also be more difficult to predict in terms of timing and location. As of right now, it appears some afternoon pop-up storms will develop somewhere in central and southern Arkansas. These may be c...