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We do not see a change in the record. >> i know our technology and ability to predict tornados in any storm is so much better than it used to be, but were we able to gauge the strength of the tornadoes that swept across the country on wednesday? >> on that morning, the conditions for tornado development were about as extreme as any forecaster i have worked with, or has experienced in their career. we knew the environment over a large area say the size of mississippi and alabama was primed for vo...

Of georgia up into the northeast. and we zoom in on that specific warning across parts of north carolina. you can see it on your screen, and it does can include some additional counties now including dylan, robison and columbus counties, and these are in southeast north carolina. if you do live in one of these areas, seek shelter immediately. you can see it on your screen, just to the south of fayetteville, and this is the same area that did get hit hard by tornadoes a week and a half ago, so no...

It is not just across north carolina, but south carolina is also under the again. one tornado warning to the northwest of myrtle beach. if you live in this area you need to seek shelter immediately. again, a tornado warning means you need to head to safety right away. go to a basement or the inner most part on a lower level of your home away from windows. thats the safest place to be during a tornado. theres also a new tornado watch issued across southern parts of the state of pennsylvania. now ...

Tornado development that far north. two tornado watches in effect until 9 p.m. eastern time south of that one across the d.c. area and the one that includes north carolina. in is until 9 p.m. eastern time. the one across north carolina has been deemed a particularly dangerous situation. conditions here are favorable for very long track tornadoes and very violent tornadoes that could be as strong as ef-4 or 5. now we are getting word that a possible tornado rolled through smithfield, north caroli...

Conditions are favorable for tornado development. several warnings in effect across the region. those in yellow are severe thunderstorm warnings where we could see large size hail and damaging winds and reports out of motherland, georgia of hail falling larger than golf balls with car windshields damaged and several car accidents. be careful. there are also tornado warnings in effect that we can tell you about here across southern parts of georgia and what those tornado warnings mean is that dop...

Are looking very serious bill: maria molina live from the weather center, what do you have? >> reporter: good morning we do have a brand new watch thats been issued in parts of the florida panhandle from southern alabama and also in mississippi this is all along these lines of storms and a tornado watch means that conditions are favorable for tornado development, so as the storms do enter the watch area were going to see these touching down and the current report right now of a tornado on the gr...

And 85 miles an hour. this is the scale we use. in the south we have a tornado watch for the florida panhandle and southern parts of alabama. conditions are still favorable for tornado development. well keep watching that. further north, the concern here is flooding. this is a six-hour loop where you can see the rain just sitting across western new york, pennsylvania, west virginia and also the south. this is a huge problem here. this is an area thats already seen flooding. we have reports of fl...

Panhandle, southern parts of alabama and this watch does mean conditions are favorable for tornado development and does go until 10:00 p.m. central time. well continue to monitor the thunderstorms as they do continue to push on eastward. very dangerous situation today across the south. otherwise how much rain are we talking about? up to three inches in some spots and also heavy snow will fall further north across parts of new england where we could see up to a foot of snow and through new york, ...

Molina in the fox weather extreme center with details -- the fox extreme weather center. details on what is going on with the storm. >> thats right, we are getting reports of flooding, on roads, currently under water, across parts of the state of indiana and also missouri, and ohio has seen quite a bit of rain, the rain is spreading into parts of western new york, through western pennsylvania including pittsburgh and also, across the south. where aside from the threat for flooding we also have a...

Least, were looking at storms that have been firing up across parts of alabama, these storms started out in mississippi and we could see these strengthen and intensify as well. so a lot of different areas were going to be watching in the next couple of hours. what can you expect as we head through the rest of tonight and into tomorrow? look at this huge area of high risk. we only get a handful of these high risk outlook days per year, don, so we have had a really slow start to the tornado season...