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A dangerous, multiday severe weather outbreak began its trek across the South on Monday, bringing a few damaging tornadoes to the region, including to a high school in Arkansas while classes were still in session. Severe storms have now moved east Tuesday, prompting NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center to issue a Tornado Watch until 5 p.m. CST for portions of western Alabama, southeastern Louisiana, central and southern Mississippi and Middle Tennessee. You can see in the three-hour radar loop below that a line of strong to severe storms is pushing east across the region on Tuesday morning, prompting a few Severe...

The National Weather Service advised people to take shelter after issuing tornado watches and warnings, which expired by about 7 p.m.

Many discrete supercell storms are trying to develop from S IL south into MS..many are starting to rotate another area back more NW in MO and yet a third from central AR to NE TX wide moist warm sector and cooling temps aloft will increase instability over night as storm dynamics and low levels winds increase models showed this happening and a moderate risk was issued however it now appears those models are correct at this early stage

Hazardous Weather Outlook Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 507 AM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021 MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-210930- Midland-Bay-Huron-Saginaw-Tuscola-Sanilac-Shiawassee-Genesee-Lapeer- St. Clair-Livingston-Oakland-Macomb-Washtenaw-Wayne-Lenawee-Monroe- 507 AM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021 This hazardous weather outlook is for southeast Michigan. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Severe thunderstorms are likely across all of southeast Michigan tonight mainly after 8 PM. There is a marginal risk in the Tri Cities and northern Thumb, a slight risk across the I-69 corridor, and an enhanced risk mainly from the M-59 corridor south through metro Detroit to the Ohio border. There is a chance of tornadoes and large hail...

Wow! If that lightening is real and not CGI or otherwise enhanced...never seen such intensity.https://twitter.com/txyyss/status/1393205364305195013

Florida officials say two adults have been killed and four children have been seriously injured after two suspected tornadoes swept through central Florida early Sunday. The dead and injured were all members of the same family and living in a mobile home in Duette, Fla., near Tampa. The grandparents were killed, and the children were taken to the hospital. Their father was injured as well. At least three tornadoes have been reported in the area, where severe weather warnings were issued Sunday as storms continued to battle central Florida, according to The Weather Channel.

From the American Meteorological SocietyA risk management framework improves health systems’ resilience to high-impact weatherWASHINGTON — April 29, 2014 – According to a new study by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Policy Program, a risk management framework can improve the resilience of healthcare facilities and services to high-impact weather such as tornadoes and hurricanes. The report is based on a recent AMS Policy Program workshop, A Prescription for the 21st Century: Improving Resilience to High-Impact Weather for Healthcare Facilities and Services, held in Washington, DC in October 2013.The purpose of the study was to explore methods for improving the resilience...

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0451 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1205 PM CDT MON APR 28 2014 AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS NERN LA...WRN/NRN MS...NWRN AL...SRN MIDDLE TN. CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...TORNADO WATCH LIKELY VALID 281705Z - 281900Z PROBABILITY OF WATCH ISSUANCE...95 PERCENT SUMMARY...TORNADO WATCH IS HIGHLY PROBABLE WITHIN NEXT HOUR ACROSS DISCUSSION AREA. SUPERCELLS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN BKN/SW-NE BAND AND INTENSIFY THROUGH AFTN WITH A FEW SIGNIFICANT/LONG-TRACK TORNADOES POSSIBLE. DISCUSSION...EARLIER CONVECTION HAS LEFT OUTFLOW/DIFFERENTIAL-HEATING BOUNDARY ALIGNED SW-NE ACROSS DISCUSSION AREA...BECOMING MORE DIFFUSE WITH SWWD EXTENT AT SFC. MEANWHILE VIS IMAGERY SHOWS EXPANDING POCKETS OF RELATIVELY CLOUD-FREE AREAS THAT WILL FOSTER SUSTAINED PERIOD...

Tornado Watch issued in North Central Texas:Severe Thunderstorm Watch in Southern Oklahoma:

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 116 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN DALLAS COUNTY... AT 116 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONFIRMED A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LANCASTER...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF DALLAS AND THE CITY OF LANCASTER! SEEK SHELTER NOW! THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LANCASTER AROUND 125 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED! THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING...

PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0653 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2011 ...OUTBREAK OF SEVERE STORMS AND TORNADOES EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT... THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW STRONG LONG TRACK TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WIND OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE SOUTHERN ARKANSAS EXTREME NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA NORTHEASTERN TEXAS ELSEWHERE...SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM...THE OHIO...

PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0415 AM CDT WED JUL 14 2010 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE CENTRAL AND EASTERN MINNESOTA WESTERN AND NORTHERN WISCONSIN A BROAD CURRENT OF WARM AND VERY HUMID AIR WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN TODAY...ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF...

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS TO UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES OVER PARTS OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS TO UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE NORTHERN IOWA CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WESTERN WISCONSIN MORE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING NEAR THE DEVELOPING SURFACE LOW AND WARM FRONT...FROM NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA INTO ADJACENT PORTIONS...

...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER THE UPPER MS VALLEY INTO PARTS OF THE MID MO VALLEY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES OVER THE UPPER MS VALLEY INTO PARTS OF THE MID MO VALLEY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE MUCH OF IOWA MUCH OF WESTERN AND PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA EASTERN NEBRASKA FAR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA WESTERN WISCONSIN ELSEWHERE...SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM THE ERN DAKOTAS AND ERN NEB INTO THE...

PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1134 AM CDT WED MAY 19 2010 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW STRONG TORNADOES OVER PARTS OF OKLAHOMA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE PARTS OF OKLAHOMA ELSEWHERE...SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS TO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MORNING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY WEAKEN EARLY THIS...

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 147 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 125 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS CENTRAL AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 125 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM...

As a nearly stationary upper system spins over the Missouri Valley, additional individuals pieces of energy continue to rotate around it, One spun threw the lower Mississippi Valley Wednesday evening and delivered the season’s first widespread severe weather event with a total of 168 severe weather reports. Of those, 5 were of tornadoes with four being reported in Arkansas and one in Louisiana. The remainder was of large hail and damaging winds. Of the tornadoes that occurred, it appears the strongest may have occurred across three counties in central Arkansas:

A nearly stationary weather pattern is going to equal a busy, unsettled weather week for most of us east of the Rockies. First of several impulses is spinning around a cut-off upper rotation over the Plains. It his bringing a band of rain/showers from the Mississippi River eastward and I-70 northward, today. The next piece of energy will rotate eastward out of the 4-corners region on Wednesday and by late Wednesday evening will be making its way into southeast Kansas. This will set up for the potential of some strong and even severe thunderstorms Wednesday late afternoon through early Thursday...

It’s hard to be thinking about severe weather after the very cool weather many of us have been experiencing, especially where it has recently snowed. However, we are heading into another severe weather season that generally runs from late October through November. Now, this season is predominately found in the southern United States from Texas to Georgia.

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND MIDWEST TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND MIDWEST TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE IOWA ILLINOIS INDIANA MINNESOTA WISCONSIN ELSEWHERE...SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PLAINS ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY AND APPALACHIANS MOUNTAINS TO THE MID ATLANTIC COAST. A VERY ACTIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT REGIME WILL CONTINUE TODAY OVER AN EXTENSIVE REGION FROM THE PLAINS...ACROSS THE...