By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma issued a Public Severe Weather Outlook at 11:13 AM CDT as severe thunderstorm systems positioned themselves to plague parts of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, and the Great Lakes.
A huge area east of the Mississippi River including; North Dakota, West Virginia, and Kentucky are expecting damaging winds and several are under tornado watches, including much of Lower Michigan, the eastern half of Ohio, western Pennsylvania, much of West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and western Tennessee, North Carolina; northern portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
Numerous tornado warnings were issued for West Tennessee Tuesday morning and Emergency management directors for Carroll, Hardin, Hardeman, Henderson and Benton counties said they are closely monitoring tornado warnings in their counties.
Minutes ago, The National Weather Service reported preliminary damage from wind gusts in Shelby County, and thunderstorm damages in Obion County, with fallen trees and downed power lines.
Meteorologist Z.E. Ingram with the National Weather Service in Memphis said less severe thunderstorms would continue to move through the region over the next several hours with the last of the storms passing through the area by late this afternoon.
The Chicago Weather Center reported 9 tornado and 139 damaging wind reports, mainly in northeast Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee this afternoon.
Chicago temperatures peaked early this morning in the lower 70s between 5 and 6AM, but by the afternoon, readings were slowly falling into the 50s. Forecaster predict the temperature will bottom out in the upper 40s by evening and say the winds will continue to gust well above 45 mph in several cities. Milwaukee reported wind gusts of 61 mph and Gary, Indiana reported gusts of 55 mph around 1PM.
WSAZ, in Huntington, West Virginia reported thunderstorms and 70 mph winds forced the closing of all Kanawha County Schools and is said to be the reason a flight from Cincinnati to Huntington had to be canceled. Cabell and Huntington counties are under a wind advisory until 8 pm Tuesday.
WCHS TV (WV) reported thunderstorms across the state would continue after midnight with 20 to 25 mph winds to the west and gusts up to 45 mph becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. A 726 Tornado Watch is also in effect until 9 PM Tuesday evening.
North Carolina Channel 13 Chief Meteorologist Jason Boyer called for Showers and thunderstorms this evening and announced a Tornado watch until 10pm and a Wind Advisory until 3am. Temperature will drop to 61 degrees this evening with gusts reaching 30-50 mph at times.
Boyer reported that the strong winds will be a persistent problem across Western North Carolina through Friday. Weathercentral.com has called for the overnight lows in Western North Carolina to fall back into the 30s by Friday morning.
While much of the country deals with thunderstorms and tornado conditions, wind gusts of over 50 mph, frigid temperatures and snow blanketed northwest North Dakota today as a blizzard set in.
Temperatures are in the middle 30s across the state with rain that changed to snow around 1PM at many northern observation points. The blizzard warning is in effect through Wednesday with forecasters calling for up to 10 inches
While Emergency Management officials in all the effected states continue to monitor these potentially dangerous weather systems, they advise residents in these states to keep an eye to their local weather stations and to listen for possible watches and warnings via NOAA Weather Radio.
The Black Urban Times
The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma issued a Public Severe Weather Outlook at 11:13 AM CDT as severe thunderstorm systems positioned themselves to plague parts of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, and the Great Lakes.
A huge area east of the Mississippi River including; North Dakota, West Virginia, and Kentucky are expecting damaging winds and several are under tornado watches, including much of Lower Michigan, the eastern half of Ohio, western Pennsylvania, much of West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and western Tennessee, North Carolina; northern portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
Numerous tornado warnings were issued for West Tennessee Tuesday morning and Emergency management directors for Carroll, Hardin, Hardeman, Henderson and Benton counties said they are closely monitoring tornado warnings in their counties.
Minutes ago, The National Weather Service reported preliminary damage from wind gusts in Shelby County, and thunderstorm damages in Obion County, with fallen trees and downed power lines.
Meteorologist Z.E. Ingram with the National Weather Service in Memphis said less severe thunderstorms would continue to move through the region over the next several hours with the last of the storms passing through the area by late this afternoon.
The Chicago Weather Center reported 9 tornado and 139 damaging wind reports, mainly in northeast Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee this afternoon.
Chicago temperatures peaked early this morning in the lower 70s between 5 and 6AM, but by the afternoon, readings were slowly falling into the 50s. Forecaster predict the temperature will bottom out in the upper 40s by evening and say the winds will continue to gust well above 45 mph in several cities. Milwaukee reported wind gusts of 61 mph and Gary, Indiana reported gusts of 55 mph around 1PM.
WSAZ, in Huntington, West Virginia reported thunderstorms and 70 mph winds forced the closing of all Kanawha County Schools and is said to be the reason a flight from Cincinnati to Huntington had to be canceled. Cabell and Huntington counties are under a wind advisory until 8 pm Tuesday.
WCHS TV (WV) reported thunderstorms across the state would continue after midnight with 20 to 25 mph winds to the west and gusts up to 45 mph becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. A 726 Tornado Watch is also in effect until 9 PM Tuesday evening.North Carolina Channel 13 Chief Meteorologist Jason Boyer called for Showers and thunderstorms this evening and announced a Tornado watch until 10pm and a Wind Advisory until 3am. Temperature will drop to 61 degrees this evening with gusts reaching 30-50 mph at times.
Boyer reported that the strong winds will be a persistent problem across Western North Carolina through Friday. Weathercentral.com has called for the overnight lows in Western North Carolina to fall back into the 30s by Friday morning.
While much of the country deals with thunderstorms and tornado conditions, wind gusts of over 50 mph, frigid temperatures and snow blanketed northwest North Dakota today as a blizzard set in.
Temperatures are in the middle 30s across the state with rain that changed to snow around 1PM at many northern observation points. The blizzard warning is in effect through Wednesday with forecasters calling for up to 10 inchesWhile Emergency Management officials in all the effected states continue to monitor these potentially dangerous weather systems, they advise residents in these states to keep an eye to their local weather stations and to listen for possible watches and warnings via NOAA Weather Radio.
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