Ground Lightning News Today

is saturday, april 22nd. im aymara walker. victor blackwell and youre in the cnn newsroom we begin this morning with the battle over abortion. the widely used abortion bruggeman kristen will remain available to women in the u. s without restrictions , at least in those states where abortion remains. the decision protects access to the drug at least until the appeals process plays out, but the protection could ultimately be taken away again. court ruling in texas earlier this month susp...

Intense it shut down some roads. we have reports of baseball sized hail to the north of where im standing now. today we are looking at the same type of setup. it looks like the best chance of tornadoes across southwestern kansas. its this entire southern plains region that could see dangerous cloud to ground lightning, large damaging hail damaging wind gusts and the potential for flash flooding. we have had several days of several inches of rain. any additional rainfall will lead to the flash fl...

Of that front. that the best chance of seeing severe weather. you see i cross southern parts of new york state there where that darker shade of yellow is, those are your severe thunderstorm warnings. so a watch box means that conditions are favorable for severe storms to happen. but when you get those warnings, that means a severe thunderstorm is occurring and it is in especially new york state where we have seen a lot of those severe thunderstorm warnings popping up. but we are seeing more and ...

Well. jennifer delgado has more on the weather situation. george howell saying concerns about rough weather moving in and how that might complicate the picture. >> we do have a thunderstorm watch just to the west of west, texas. heres the line right here. this squall line. along this we are going to see very gusty wind. winds up to 40 miles an hour. weve already seen some wind gusts up to 50. now, were expecting it to make its way to west, texas, right around 5:30, 6:00 local time, again thats c...

Especially heavy across south dakota and will fill in across parts of western and central nebraska where they could end up with another 6 to 12 inches of snow out of this snowstorm. winds will be gusty, too. it is going to be reducing visibilities. ahead of it across indiana through ohio and kentucky right now, we have stronger storms with a lot of cloud to ground lightning. the biggest threat of severe weather today will be back across oklahoma and southeastern kansas. there is the threat of is...

Into western south carolina, we have the potential of very strong storms with wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour and also the chance of seeing a lot of cloud to ground lightning, as well. heres a look at our snowfall forecast. parts of oklahoma picking up 3 to 6 inches of snow. from arkansas all the way up into northern naernd, we could see 3 to 6 inches of snow. the purple is an area of buffalo into cleveland, we could end up seeing a foot of snow. were really talking about everything with this...

Good morning, we are talking about rain moving into the east coast and we could end up with severe weather in our region as well in the new york city area, but stretching all the way down into northern florida too. look at the lightning in the panhandle of florida moving into the jacksonville area. we are going to see frequent cloud to ground lightning. wind gusts up to around 40 to maybe 50 miles per hour. and we could end up with isolated tornadoes. basically anywhere from western connecticut,...

Panhandle of florida. this is going to stretch eastward as we head into this afternoon and there is the potential for some severe weather later today with frequent cloud to ground lightning. wind gusts up to 40 to 50 miles per hour. we could get reports of isolated tornadoes. something well keep an eye on later on today. tomorrow morning, well start off with rain but then see increasing sunshine while the rest of the country enjoys that sunshine through the rest of the week. >> dylan, thank so m...

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Severe thunderstorm watches and warnings that have already been issued. you see those yellow boxes that pop up there, extending all the way down into tennessee, across northern alabama, northern georgia and western parts of the carolinas. thats going to be our focus for damaging wind gusts. weve already had reports of wind in excess of 60 miles an hour and quarter-sized hail and frequent cloud to ground lightning. even though were not talking about tornado watches or tornado warnings, we are sti...