“Many residents have been displaced from their homes and many businesses have reported significant damage,” he said. No deaths have been reported, he noted. The Springdale Fire Department said the southeastern part of the city was “severely damaged” and the Springdale Police Department announced a number of road closures amid reports of damaged power lines, trees and traffic lights. Video taken by CNN shows KHBS / KHOG leveled buildings, roof damage and yards filled with storm debris. At George Elementary School, the gym was destroyed and the kitchen and cafeteria were severely damaged, the Springdale School District said. Asa Hutchinson said on Twitter that there were no students inside the school at that time. The damage comes from a series of storms that erupted in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas that will intensify during the day, putting more than 50 million people at risk of extreme weather. “Just walk outside and you can say something in It will happen today, “the National Weather Service (NWS) wrote in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday morning. The bull’s-eye is in Mississippi for the most extreme storms. The Storm Prediction Center released a tornado monitoring for Wednesday at 5:25 p.m. until 1 p.m. CDT covering parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. A tornado clock was also issued for parts of southwest Louisiana and east Texas as of 11:10 a.m. until 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. CDT. The latest tornado clock contains the highest probability of multiple tornadoes, with the Storm Prediction Center giving a 90% chance of tornadoes appearing in the area. In addition to the tornadoes, “catastrophic gusts of wind are expected to lead to extensive wind damage,” the SPC said, with gusts of up to 80 mph. Extreme weather conditions are coming in at a month that has seen a near record of tornado activity in the United States. One difference between this week’s storms and last week’s deadly tornado outbreak is how widespread the danger zone is, how strong the winds will be and how long the catastrophic winds will last.
Danger of strong thunderstorms throughout the day
As thunderstorms move across Arkansas, the risk of heavy thunderstorms will increase during the day. “There is an increased threat of EF-2 to EF-5 tornadoes and strong gusts of 65 knots (75 mph) or greater,” the Weather Forecast Center said Wednesday morning. EF-2 tornadoes can cause significant damage, tear roofs off homes, and destroy caravans. Meanwhile, an EF-5 tornado will cause incredible damage, usually sweeping homes from their foundations and moving them long distances, according to the NWS. By noon, changes in weather conditions near the storm line would lead to a “rapid increase in storm cover and intensity,” the Storm Forecast Center said. A moderate risk – level 4 out of 5 – of strong thunderstorms covers the entire state of Mississippi and includes parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee. Thus, with the exception of Jackson, residential cities such as Memphis, Tennessee, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama, all fall into this category. Prevent the storm, sign up for weekly updates from CNN meteorologists Most of the more intense activity is expected to become serious as it quickly crosses the Mississippi River in Mississippi, western Tennessee and Kentucky, the SPC said. “We are expecting a long period of intense weather today with catastrophic winds even before the storms and catastrophic winds arrive during the main event,” Logan Poole, a meteorologist at NWS in Jackson, told CNN. Across the South, strong winds are forecast in view of the main line of storms that will have even stronger winds. Even before the storms approached, there could be catastrophic wind gusts of nearly 60 miles per hour outside the south. Strong wind warnings are in view of the storm line that runs from northwest Tennessee to the Louisiana Gulf Coast. “This will certainly be widespread and likely to affect a larger portion of our population,” NWS wrote in Jackson. “Winds of up to 80 miles per hour, in addition to the inclination of the wind in front of the line, will carry the risk of falling trees and power lines and will lead to power outages. As the storm line approaches, “Supercells are possible, with strong tornadoes possible,” the SPC said, “as well as particularly damaging outflows.” The threat of the storm will continue in the afternoon and during the night, with storms hitting places like New Orleans, which is at a serious risk level of 3 out of 5, around sunset. As the storms head east in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, they will begin to lose some of their power before reaching places like Atlanta in the early hours of the morning.
Almost record course for tornadoes
As of Wednesday morning, the SPC had recorded at least 187 preliminary reports of tornadoes in March. This is more than 233% of normal and just four of the highest number of March tornadoes in recorded history (191 in March 2021), according to CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri. On average, March has about 80 tornadoes across the country. Although the March record may be broken in a matter of hours by Wednesday’s thunderstorms, another tornado record remains much longer. The nation is currently at its largest without the EF-5 tornado, says Javaheri. “You should be back almost a decade on May 20, 2013, for the last EF-5 in the country.” Since then, at least 11,322 tornadoes have hit the US, with no one reaching the EF-5 threshold (200+ mph). “The series came to an end in December 2021, in the middle of the historic month that saw more than 200 reports of tornadoes,” adds Javaheri. “The December 10 tornado in western Kentucky was rated EF-4, with peak winds estimated at around 190 mph, just 10 mph less than an EF-5 tornado.” “This is a series that we hope to continue today.” CNN’s Laura James, Brandon Miller, contributed to this report.
