Overnight, the risk for heavy rain and flooding centers over eastern Kansas and mid-Missouri. The rain looks to continue through Sunday and into Monday, right along a slow-moving cold front that may become stationary for a time and allow for such excessive rainfall to accumulate. ??????????  

Farther north there is another area under a marginal risk for severe storms stretching from Minneapolis to Omaha and Kansas City. Damaging wind is the main risk with storms but flash flooding and some hail is also possible. ??????????  

There is a slight risk for severe storms in the Texas panhandle and eastern New Mexico late this afternoon and into the evening hours. The main risks are chances for damaging wind, large hail, and a few tornadoes. Amarillo, Texas, and Roswell, New Mexico, are in this risk area. ??????????  

Record high temperatures are possible Saturday from Chicago to Dallas with highs expected in the mid-upper 90s. In fact, people from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Little Rock, Arkansas, are under a heat advisory Saturday because temperatures are reaching the mid-upper 90s and heat indices may reach up to 107. ??????????  

Thunderstorms are in the forecast Saturday across parts of the central United States as a summer-like pattern continues to deliver hot temperatures and scattered severe weather. ??????????