Severe storms to hammer central, eastern US on daily basis through Sunday
Severe weather may show no mercy for parts of the central United States with a daily risk in some locations. Storms will also reach into parts of the East as well.
A tornado was captured by AccuWeather’s Tony Laubach reporting from Morton, Texas, after a tornado warning was issued for the area.
Rounds of severe thunderstorms packing high winds and damaging hail will focus mainly on the central and eastern United States into the weekend, AccuWeather meteorologists say.
The risk of severe weather will continue each day over the Plains and Mississippi Valley through the weekend, from just inland from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley. As warm, humid air from the Gulf clashes with a press of cool air from the Rockies—combined with a strong jet stream overhead— thunderstorms will erupt and are likely to become locally violent.
Friday's severe weather threat will extend all the way from eastern New Mexico to the Appalachians. Once again, the main threats will be from powerful wind gusts, hail, localized flash flooding and isolated tornadoes.
There will be two main risk zones, one extending from the southern High Plains into the western Ozark Mountains and another zone in the southern Ohio River Valley.
The biggest and most concentrated areas of severe weather Saturday will be a vast zone extending from eastern Oklahoma and Texas to portions of the western Carolinas where storms packing flooding downpours, hail and high winds are anticipated. However, some severe thunderstorm activity can occur as far north in portions of the Ohio River Valley and the mid-Atlantic.
Severe weather will continue during the day Sunday, encompassing many similar areas including the Southeast and Midwest as another round of thunderstorms traverses the nation. In these areas, any thunderstorm may contain a heavier downpour and gusty winds.
Thunderstorms will reignite across portions of the southern Plains late Sunday afternoon before becoming more widespread and charging across portions of northern Texas and southern Oklahoma into Sunday night. Thunderstorms will be capable of producing hail, flash flooding and localized damaging wind gusts, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 90 mph.
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