Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 356 AM EDT Fri Jul 01 2016 Valid 12Z Fri Jul 01 2016 - 12Z Sun Jul 03 2016 ...Heavy rain and strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible across portions of the Central Plains on Friday... ...An approaching cold front will bring a chance for severe weather across the Northeast on Friday... ...Unseasonably cool conditions expected across Midwest Friday and Saturday... Showers and thunderstorms will continue to develop along a frontal boundary stretched from the Tennessee Valley to the lee of the Central Rockies the next few days. The greatest threat for any flash flooding and strong to severe storms will be across Kansas on Friday and shifting to the Lower/Middle Mississippi Valley on Saturday...where impulses of energy rippling through aloft will combine with anomalous moisture focusing along the boundary. Gerhardt Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_wbg.php