Severe thunderstorms with possible flooding to affect Plains, Midwest Matthew Cappucci The European model simulates lightning activity on Tuesday evening. (WeatherBell) Severe thunderstorm season is in full force across the central United States, and this week will fit the pattern, with several rounds of heavy thunderstorms and flooding across the central and southern Plains and Mississippi Valley. While pockets of damaging wind and hail are possible, the risk for excessive rainfall and flash flooding is anticipated to be more widespread. A tornado and a rainbow appeared simultaneously near one Texas town on Friday There’s a chance that some locales could pick up as much as a half-foot of rainfall through the workweek, while other drought-stricken regions in west Texas and the High Plains continue to bake in the heat.
Severe thunderstorms with possible flooding to affect Plains, Midwest
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7:30 p.m.: Numerous reports of tree damage across Mississippi
Emergency management directors across the state have reported high levels of tree damage as high winds and tornadoes swept across Mississippi Wednesday.
Wind gusts higher than 58 miles per hour were recorded at the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport Wednesday evening. The storm system, which has spawned at least three tornadoes over the past 24 hours, have downed trees along several state highways. A tree also fell on a house in Cameron, according to a report from the Madison County Emergency Management Agency, but no one was injured.
Severe weather is expected to continue through the night and into early Thursday morning, officials at the National Weather Service in Jackson said Wednesday afternoon. At least 20 counties remain under a tornado watch until 3 a.m. Thursday.