Severe weather on the move into southern, eastern US through midweek
Severe storms with damaging winds, hail and a few tornadoes will shift from the middle of the United States to the South and East through midweek, with renewed threats focusing on the Gulf Coast by the weekend.
A funnel cloud was seen in Dyersburg, Tennessee, overnight on April 28 during a tornado-warned storm. Meteorologists said the video likely shows a tornado, though it was not officially confirmed.
After hundreds of severe weather incidents and dozens of tornadoes since last Thursday across the central United States, dangerous storms shifted south and east. By this weekend, severe storms may impact the Gulf Coast.
There were more than 1,200 preliminary severe weather reports from last Thursday to Wednesday, including nearly 70 tornadoes. Over 350 reports came in on Monday alone.
AccuWeather’s severe weather classification is impact-driven and differs from the Storm Prediction Center’s system, with a focus on clarity for the general public.
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Severe threat to redevelop near Gulf Coast by week’s end
From late this week into the weekend, additional severe thunderstorms are expected from Texas to northern Florida and southern Georgia as the front stalls near the I-10 and I-20 corridors.
On Thursday, severe thunderstorms will develop across central parts of Texas and southern Louisiana. Storms will be capable of producing hail, localized damaging wind gusts and flash flooding.
Locally severe thunderstorms are forecast to form again over portions of Texas and Louisiana Friday afternoon and Friday evening.
Storms will tend to track from west to east along the boundary separating warm and humid air near the Gulf and cool air over the interior U.S. The storms will tend to hug the Gulf Coast.
By Saturday, there will be a threat of at least localized storms from the southeastern corner of Georgia to the northern and central parts of the Florida Peninsula.
That same pattern is also expected to bring beneficial rain to drought- and wildfire-prone areas, though it may lead to localized flash flooding.
While long-term drought may persist, the soaking rain, followed by spring green-up and more humid conditions in May, could help end the region’s spring wildfire threat.
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