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A serious flash flood threat is unfolding in parts of Missouri on Wednesday as more than a half foot of rain has already fallen, with more potent storms expected later in the day.

Have a job, help us out, please. the storm was the most devastating tornado to hit mississippi in 50 years. and there are fears — worse may be to come. the us national weather service warned of more supercell thunderstorms, which could produce more strong tornadoes and hail storms. hail stones almost as big as golf balls have already been reported in georgia a few hundred kilometres to the east of rolling fork. they damaged cars and buildings in this suburb of atlanta. us officials say this ki...

Its different, however, were not seeing the large supercell thunderstorms we see a line, a lynn yarp equation where we have tornadoes but smaller. till tornado watches including areas into st. louis area. now larger populated regions. we have a tornado warning, including st. louis county. we have two of them now and thats moving toward in area. they have cancelled the st. louis cardinal game outside because of the weather. more of this is continuing to spread. and as it makes its way a few more ...

And thats how we get tornadoes to form later today. the timing today, very classic, mid to late afternoon continuing in to the early evening hours. am of these showing potential at least of these supercell thunderstorms. mostly this area from north texas border here, straight line north-south and areas to the east. thats where were going to watch. all heading towards oklahoma city later on this evening. again, 19 million people at risk in this high-risk area in pink here. two years since weve ha...

Halloween day here. little rock, memphis, nashville, lexington, louisville, cincinnati will be some of the wettest arearea. this is for tomorrow, but we could even have supercell thunderstorms with tornados tomorrow afternoon. we watch it closely from houston to austin to waco. dallas/ft. worth it looks like youre rainy the first half of halloween. were going to try to push it out by the time we get to halloween evening. its going to be a close call. for halloween, 63 in new york, 71 in d.c. rea...

>> march, april and may is when the storms flourish to this level. good morning, boris and alison. tuscaloosa and birmingham and chattanooga with these conditions favorable to spawn storms. look at the storms beginning to flourish. look at the supercell thunderstorms. the ones that separated one by one. you have storms as such and they keep the energy to themselves and they can spawn. there has been a history of tornadoes with this line of weather over the past 24 hours. the threat extends for t...

And that is really critical when we consider the altitude that they were ascending to when they asked to deviate around these thunderstorms. what weve done here in the cnn world weather center is weve stopped the satellite imagery. were having trouble finding some of the radar imagery from this region, but satellite is important and it tells us certain clues of what took place at that last moment of contact which was roughly 7:15 in the morning on sunday local time. and you can clearly see there...

Just yesterday. joins me is bret adair, who is in egypt, mississippi. bret, can you give us the latest from your end? >> yeah, weve got a pretty serious situation involves from the tupelo area all the way south at the moment with several supercell thunderstorms that are producing tornadoes, as you guys have been made aware of, such as the one that hit tupelo a few moments ago. >> bret, do we have a sense of whether there are -- when tornadoes hit, theres obvious a period of time during which an ...

Down there? >> its amazing to think this is the first day of winter and weve got an ice storm, a snowstorm and a tornado outbreak on the same day. were in greenville, mississippi. kind of seems like this is the epicenter of what happens today. behind me, an ominous sky. going to show you just an instant of whats happening here. you see this flag right here? winds are very, very strong out of the south and temperatures are 75 to 80 degrees. that strong wind from the south at the surface and a ver...

If we get a wind gust, its going to be brief. were not seeing the organized supercell thunderstorms weve had the last couple of days. that threat moves from around northern virginia up toward the northeastern part of the u.s. tomorrow. well continue to watch it. at least the threat is a little lower than it has been the last five days. >> well take anything. a little lower is good. thanks, tom. four months after that bunker standoff in southeast alabama involving a 65-year-old man and a 5-year...