 with what could turn out to be a couple of days of significant severe weather from the eastern dakotas into sections of the ohio valley storm each afternoon and evening presents a potential for large hail wind gusts reaching hurricane force and even some tornadoes through wednesday night with many places in line to get powerful storms both of the next two days elsewhere a storm pushing toward the east coast brings widespread shower and thunderstorm activity from the southern appalachians into kentucky ohio and michigan and points eastward across the northeast