Page 2 - Tornado Potential News Today

Strong to severe storms are expected today, here's the latest on timing and severe threats

Already is ironically the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. the one difference with the 11:00 p.m. update from the national hurricane center is the -- the track has shifted just a smidge to the east. just -- just a little bit. all right? the intensity is still at 105 miles per hour. but the pressure is dropping so as it approaches louisiana, its going to start rapidly intensifying here in the coming hours. i mean, very soon. we have bands of showers already pushing into parts of the lower m...

Quadrant, that is where you get the strongest winds, highest surge and biggest tornado potential. this is what the radar will look like later this afternoon going into this evening as it comes ashore. notice the thunderstorms piling up across southeastern louisiana, moving up into mississippi and alabama. on this side as it approaches, the winds will cause the water to pile up and we could see catastrophic storm surge up to 15 feet near the mouth of the mississippi. in terms of the rainfall, whe...

You can see there simply peeled off. cnn meteorologist chad myers joins us now. what happened there? >> just getting first light here. we had a line of weather that was moving through sioux falls. some of these storms were rotating. it didnt look like anything more than a wind gust potntsial, but as the storm got close to sioux falls, this is backing you up to 11:00 last night, there were rotating supercells behind the first row. usually when the first row goes by, it cools off and you dont get ...

Just as a band was coming over you from satellite beach florida. youre saying you have seen some of the strongest winds so far. what is it like out there? >> reporter: its very hit or miss. in between the bands you can see bright blue sky. thats that dry mid level air that is coming in. then those bands will move in and mix that with strauk winong we have seen small branches flying by inside some bands and some near water spouts. these storms do have tornado potential as they come ashore especia...

Big pine trees down around the coastal areas of georgia. especially going through the night and around the hilton head area, a ton of downed trees. now that we have daylight, starting to get a lot of pictures. the most wind damage. not concerned with major wind damage. right now a six-foot storm surge in charleston and at low tide, thankfully. closer to high tide last night the water all through coastal areas. when we get pictures, afraid of a lot of damp around the beaches with houses. onshore,...

Under a couple of watches for severe thunderstorms and flash flooding. alison? >> alina machado, thanks. that picture of the rainbow and the funnel cloud, the awesome of mother nature, amazing. >> all in one frame there. you can imagine the people are waking up this morning and its a mess. >> oh, yeah. >> looking at what they have to clean up. lets go to meteorologist ivan cabrera who is with us now. yesterday, we were looking the potential 17 million could face severe weather on saturday. i...

Canceled and 200 delayed. maria it is not looking so good. >> we are seeing severe weather. we have tornado watches in effect for northern parts of george florida and georgia. what bhad it dangerous is it was hard to see it. we had a lot of trees in the area. these thunderstorms have a tornado potential out here and can be tough to see. we will bring you the latest as that situation continues to develop. on the cold side of the storm system we are looking at 1-4 inches of snow. it will be produc...

Obvious there was a lot of tornado potential in central oklahoma and we went west and pretty much right when we got on the storms as soon as they got cranking we got underneath and i mean really just within minutes the storm put down the tornado and you asked what is going through my mind. really storm chasers we are calm in moments like that. a lot of people think it is intense and adrenaline rush but we are just focused really. >> i dont understand how you know which way the twister is going t...

They say there is now what they call a pds, particularly dangerous situation tornado watch? >> i think this is something the weather service has done very wisely. we have different categories of even tornado warnings. you hear the word tornado emergency. youll hear of this particularly dangerous situation. which means they believe there will be large and dangerous tornadoes, ef-3s and possibly even bigger up to the 200-mile-per-hour ef-5 tornado potential in any one of these cells that decides t...