A potentially dangerous tornado outbreak threatens a region covering around 25 million people across the Deep South on Friday, with strong thunderstorms that could spawn intense tornadoes, damaging…
A potentially dangerous tornado outbreak threatens a region covering around 25 million people across the Deep South on Friday, with strong thunderstorms that could spawn intense tornadoes, damaging winds and large hail.The threat is particularly high in the lower Mississippi Valley – where supercells will be capable of producing EF-2 or stronger tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and large hail.
“If you are in that magenta-shaded area, you really need to be on alert,” said FOX Weather Meteorologist Jason Frazer. “It’s very likely we just had this blast of a start, we’re going to get a bit of a break,” said FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin. “But once the sun comes, up that break is going to erode very quickly because the sun leads to energy, which leads to instability, which brings in the chance of more storms… we’re going to have potential to see even stronger storms than we saw in the overnight hours as this cold front progresses off to the east.
The ground stops have since been lifted, but departure delays lingered into mid-morning. Trained weather spotters reported a gust of 71 mph at their weather stations in Decatur and Whitesboro. Ferocious winds knocked over power lines along Highway 199 near the Parker and Wise County border and spotters nearby reported seeing an RV turned over from the storms.Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms could linger in parts of the Southeast on Saturday, but the threat will be much lower than Friday.
A large swath of those regions could receive 2 to 3 inches of rain in a short amount of time, with localized rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches possible in a stripe from southern Missouri into southern Illinois, southern Indiana, extreme northern Kentucky and far southwestern Ohio.
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