The storms are expected to start Friday afternoon and go overnight, which is particularly dangerous because people can't see them coming and often won't seek shelter, weather service Storm Prediction Center warning coordination meteorologist Matt Elliott said Wednesday. "The storms will be moving ve...
There is a slight risk for severe storms in the Texas panhandle and eastern New Mexico late this afternoon and into the evening hours. The main risks are chances for damaging wind, large hail, and a few tornadoes. Amarillo, Texas, and Roswell, New Mexico, are in this risk area. ABC New...
The storms follow days of extreme weather that have ravaged much of the middle section of the country. Strong winds, large hail and tornadoes swept parts of Oklahoma and Kansas late Sunday, damaging homes and injuring two in Oklahoma. Another round of storms Monday night raked Colorado and west...
During the overnight hours, scattered strong thunderstorms first developed across south-central South Dakota. These storms were generally "elevated," feeding off of warm air above the ground while air near the ground was cooler due to nighttime cooling. Elevated storms can produce strong winds, but...
In a Wednesday night update, Vermont Emergency Management said there had been an unspecified number of evacuations and road closures due to flooding, primarily in the central part of the state. “Vermonters and visitors are encouraged to seek higher ground should floodwaters approach,” the stateme...
The storms struck just hours after President Joe Biden visited the Mississippi community of Rolling Fork, where tornadoes last week destroyed parts of town. In western Tennessee, Tipton County Sheriff Shannon Beasley wrote on Facebook early Saturday that there was “much devastation” and “some sev...
Bossman said crews were conducting "detailed searches" of the damaged neighborhoods throughout the night and into Saturday. "We have power outages, we have power lines down, we have gas leaks, we have unstable structures, we have trees that are down," the fire chief said. ...
Late Monday Kansas' Governor Laura Kelly issued a state of disaster emergency for winter storms. She propositioned emergency response crews across the state, expecting the heaviest snow overnight. "When this storm really begins to tighten up, produces those blizzard conditions over the Plains and ...
Flood warnings extended along the river to Grafton, Ill., about 40 miles north of St. Louis, and forecasters extended the warnings to St. Louis on Monday night as storms continued dousing the region. "We were seeing substantial rises in the Mississippi yesterday," Fuchs said. "That combined...