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Clear obviously. as the globe warms up, you would expect individual locations to warm up in general. and precipitation is a lot more straightforward, that is related to the amount of water vapor that the atmosphere can carry. but tornadoes is a lot further down the road there because we have to worry about the amount of moisture at the low levels of the atmosphere, we have to worry about the wind profiles. we actually have to worry about the way that the storms initiate because isolated individu...

Damage. to bring us up to date, jacqui jeras at our storm center. what is happening? >> weve got a very powerful storm system. weve got the clashes of the air masses going on today. our wind profiles, as we call them, are favorable for rotating thunderstorms. so the storm system that has already caused death and destruction will likely continue to do more of that today. weve got two watches in effect. this one in the south is what we call a pds watch or a particularly dangerous situation where w...

That in and of itself can cause major damage. severe thunderstorm warning still in effect for charlotte. moving up toward concord and kannapolis. you already had a storm move through here tonight which did cause quite a bit of damage. were going to take you down into georgia just outside milledgeville. we have a doppler radar indicated tornado here. that is still in effect for at least another 15 minutes or so. all these storms have been tracking up to the north and to the east. again, this is a...

Through here tonight, which did cause quite a bit of damage. were going to take you down into georgia. this is just outside of millageville, and we have a doppler-indicated tornado warning here. that is in effect for another 15 minutes or so. this is a radar-indicated tornado, but a tornado could touch down at any given time. well continue to monitor that area. we do also want to mention whats been happening across parts of florida. no watches in effect here, but this really strong line has been...