Transcripts For WRC NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt 201602

WRC NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt February 25, 2016

Southern portions of the county around 7 22. So, again, a Tornado Warning now in effect until 7 45. Weve had a tornado watch all day. Difference between a watch and a warning, a watch is watching for the potential for storms to develop. A Tornado Warning means we have a tornado that is out there, at least on radar. Let me take a look at this. I want to see how they are picking this up. If it is just on radar or if they have had any issue of this on the ground. I dont have it just yet. Go ahead. The questions that we had, a viewer asked, well, whats the difference between all the colors that were showing here . So, the Tornado Warning that was just issued for areas of st. Marys, Calvert County, that is the bright red that youre seeing here, and that comes straight out of areas around montrose, around westmoreland, around northumberland where there was the earlier Tornado Warning. So, the bright red is your Tornado Warning. Again, were telling folks if youre around leonardtown, 244, maryland 5 or 471 and 235, you areun seeing some tornadoes moving through your area. The severest thunderstorm warnings, theyre still up for the area, eastern charles county, southern areas of prince georges county, anne arundel, north calvert, in Northern Areas of st. Marys. Thats the yellow that youre seeing. And also on the map, that is right up into areas of baltimore still in Hartford County the Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. Thats the yellow. The dark red, where we still have some Flash Flood Warnings occurring to include right there, just west of d. C. For, i believe it is backlit creek, reports of some flooding in and around that area. So, again, those are the colors that youre seeing right now on our radar and what they actually mean. The latest warning, again, st. Marys, Calvert County, the Tornado Warning that goes up until 7 45. So, were going to be tracking this storm system until its out of here, until it makes its way out over the bay, continue to track that for you. Some of the strongest weather now making its way right through, you can see around montrose. When i put the tracking on, as its pushing off to the north and northeast, it will be hitting areas like leonardtown by 7 34, california by 7 41, into drum point by 7 48 and Calvert Beach just before 8 00. So, not moving extremely fast, this individual cell. Its just after 7 00 now. Its moving at 60 miles per hour. Im reading this right now. So, Doppler Radar indicated severe thunderstorm capable of producingza tornado over coles point, moving northeast at 60 miles per hour. This locations include leonardtown, flag harbor, lexington park, st. Marys city, st. Marys river, st. Leonard creek, chesapeake ranch estates, calvert cliffs, lusby, hollywood, the river, Patuxent Naval air station, do, tintop hill, redgate and long beach. If you live in those areas, again, you want to get into the lowest level of your home. Make sure youre in your basement right now. If you dont have a basement, get into an interior room. Were talking the bathroom. Again, one without windows. Or were talking about a closet, an interior closet. Make sure you stay safe with this. This is a system that were going to watch very closely. It has had a history of producing tornadoes down to the south. And right now its in towards portions of westmoreland county, about to cross the river in towards st. Marys county. Thank you. Along with the concerns about the high winds, weve also been talking about problems with flooding. And heres a live picture from our storm team 4 weather vehicle, where theres a rescue crew trying to get a car thats stranded in high water in the alexandria section of Fairfax County. This is happening at cherokee avenue and navajo drive. You know, please be careful out e. End of a rescue like this. But again, live pictures from the alexandria section of Fairfax County. Theyre trying to get a car out of the high water. This is a significant storm dropping an awful lot of water that include a flooding situation in a garage at the metro station at francon franconiaspringfield. That water from, i guess, what, about an hour ago . Maybe half an hour, im not sure. But that water that has flooded that garage, as doug noted, it was at that time below the bumper. Im not sure what the water situation is there now. But the point is, theres an awful lot of rain coming out of this storm along with the other considerations that doug and veronica just mentioned, including another Tornado Warning. Doug . Yeah, and that Tornado Warning, again, going until 7 45 tonight. And again, were looking at through st. Marys county. You can see the area highlighted here right along right up toward the north. And on this path were looking at 7 22 around brenton beach, around whiteport beach at 7 22, leonardtown around 7 27, california around 7 30, and over towards the solderly area at 7 35. Once again, weve seen many areas of rotation within this storm, and this is a storm that weve been tracking since it hit richmond a little bit earlier and also had a Tornado Warning there. This tornado look at the Tornado Warnings i mean, once again, this line just continues to give us Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Southern Maryland and Tornado Warnings all the way down just past the richmond area, all the way down in towards north carolina. And again, you saw the line earlier, the line was a complete line, but now youre seeing little, individual cells, and they have the potential to spin a lot easier than a line does. When you get a line of storms, its hard to get big areas of rotation happening. But now weve got that, and we may see another one here. I mean, just look at this line, how this ones kind of developed so, well be watching out for that one, too. But the one thats producing the tornado, the possible tornado, this is dopplerindicated. We do not have anything on the ground, at least confirmed. This is a dopplerindicated tornado making its way up. And thats not the only one. So, weve got this Tornado Warning here. Weve got another one down toward the south. So, weve got a couple different storm systems moving in, a couple of different cells that continue to move up toward the north and east. This one, this Tornado Warning is until 7 45, but numerous other warnings heres one storm, heres another one, and heres yet another one, allf which have Tornado Warnings associated with them. So, we are not nearly out of the woods yet as we make our way through the next couple of hours here. In and around the waldorf area, around charles county, this is a severe thunderstorm moving up toward the north and east very rapidly, too. Again, this one moving at 60 miles an hour. Doreen . Well, doug, before doreen, because she has a question that is important for folks who need some information, i want to know right now, are we getting all of conditions because weve got a combination of warm and cold air right next to each other . Whats the temperature out there . Whats it like . Well, the amazing thing about that was we knew wed see some warmer air come in. We were wondering how far west it would get. At 2 00 in the afternoon, it was 65 degrees at reagan national. At dulles, it was 43 degrees. So, in a difference of 20 miles, we saw a 25 or close to a 22degree temperature difference in that time. So, we see very warm air along i95 and eastward. Thats where we predicted we would see the Severe Weather earlier today, and thats exactly what were seeing. To the west of that, we havent seen a whole lot, with the exception of parts of Montgomery County, which got into some 70mileanhour winds. So, yeah, it is that combination, that very warm air, that very cold air, and aloft, whats going on to the north aloft in the upper levels of the atmosphere, extreme winds going on, and thats why were seeing the winds coming like this, like that, the shear, the spin in the atmosphere, and thats why were getting these strong storms. Doug, i just move from west to east. On the west side of the danger zone and the Tornado Warnings yes. Is it safe for people to go out . I mean, youve got people trying to make decisions about whether to head home from work or pick up the kids from afterschool activities, you know. Whos in the clear here, and whats your advice for them . Well, if youre west of i95, youre in the clear. Im talking Fairfax County, Montgomery County. If its not raining in your area now, you are safe. Heres whats coming in behind this. We have more rain, and a lot of this isnt even going to make it in here. But if youre around i95 westward, through Northern Virginia Northern Virginia, youre clear across the region. Im not worried about you at all. Its all Southern Maryland that were going to continue to watch now. As we move on through, as we zoom on in here, you can see what im talking about. Right along i95 and to the west of i95 were going to be that area yeah, to the west of i95, thats where were looking at everything clearing out. Now, notice whats not clearing out. We still have the Flash Flood Warnings, we still have Flood Warnings, so we still have a lot of areas of high water. Turn around, dont drown. I guarantee you what happened in that earlier shot was somebody tried to drive through some flooded roadways and got stuck. Right now, i95 eastward is where were looking at the strongest storms. So, were going to continue to watch this move out of here. Should be done by around 8 00. Again, this Tornado Warning goes until 7 45. Could be another one with this storm that makes its way up, again in towards st. Marys and Calvert County. Thanks, doug. You also mentioned that parts of Montgomery County are still in what you might call the danger zone. We have some video right now. This is a bad situation, flooding. Its on sundale drive and east west highway. Nasd thats in Silver Spring in Montgomery County, just across the d. C. Li. Awful lot of water there that people are, going through the water, as a matter of fact, im surprised some of the water doesnt get up into the engine and they flood out. In any event, thats in Montgomery County on eastwest highway. So, be careful in that. Doug . Dont go through that if you dont have to. No. You saw that prius. Right. Trying to push water out. Once you see the spray coming over your bumper, you might have some issues, so do not drive through there. Want some good news. You asked me about west of 95 here. That tornado watch has now been dropped. We are no longer concerned about this area at all west of i95. It is only east of i95. Three distinct cells. Youve got one here coming through northern prince georges into anne arundel. Youve got one here in Southern Anne Arundel through prince georges county. This is to the south and the one farther down south is the one with a right now around leonardtown. Again, if youre in this area, i cannot stress enough, stay indoors, go to the lowest level of your home, make sure youre in a bathroom, make sure youre in a closet, if you can. Again, lowest level of your home, for sure. This is right along 5, right along lexington park. Heres route 4 as it makes its way on down. So, were going to continue to see that, too, 4 and 5 as they make their way to st. Marys county. This is the area thats under the gun right now. Most of the time this time of year you dont see tornadoes that are all that strong, but weve had a History Today and yesterday of seeing those tornadoes, and this is just updated now. So, you can see where the tornados already passed you, the possible tornado. Its already on land in towards st. Marys county. So, that storm is now onshore. Thats probably a reissuance of that tornado, that same tornado that is now making its way across the bay, or across the river here, in towards that area. So, youve got the Tornado Warning here, another one down to the south, extreme southern st. Marys county. Th into extreme st. Marys county coming up over the next half hour or so. This Tornado Warning in effect until 7 45 tonight, guys, 7 45 tonight. So, please keep it right here. Were going to continue to watch these storms all moving through Southern Maryland. But if youre in d. C. , if youre points to the south along i95 and west, we are no longer going to be dealing with those issues. Now, nightly news coming on at 7 30 tonight. So, if youre tuning in for nightly news, were going to run it, dont worry. Its coming up at 7 30 tonight, but were staying with this action here in through st. Marys county, in through southern Calvert County because we have a Tornado Warning. And its our duty here to make sure that you stay protected across that region. A couple more zooms. Heres the Patuxent River nas, Naval Air Station around the Patuxent River, that continues. Lets put up the line of storms and widen out one more time to show you where the heaviest is. Lets take the composite off, too, because i want to really show this and just the right look how we do have a little bit of a curvature here. Again, that might be more of wind. Go ahead and zoom back in here, because we had some purples before. This storm may be weakening just little bit, and thats some very good news. Watched it over the past hour or so, or last half hour, if we can, and you see whats happening. By the way, theres alexandria flooding. Can you find out where that is for me, guys, so i can talk about that . We had some purple across the river, and its coming onshore. It looks like its weakening just a bit. That would be very good news for st. Marys county. Okay, so, what were looking at lets take that full, guys. Lets take that full. This is cherokee avenue at navajo drive, if we can. This is around the alexandria area. This might be the area that weve warned on a little bit earlier for the Flash Flood Warning. But you can see whats happening there. That looks like is that a car in the road . Yep, it certainly is. You know, again, somebody trying to drive across a flooded roadway. That looks like a bridge that has been overtaken, and then you see all of the debris there, oo tried to drive through it. Man, you just dont want to drive through these areas its just way too dangerous to do so. Weve got another warning thats here. Lets see, want to see what that one is for, too. Its most likely going to be another maybe Flash Flood Warning across the area . Cant tell. Again, weve got so many warnings going on. But the only Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, prince georges county, Calvert County, charles county, st. Marys county. The Tornado Warning in for st. Marys county and southern Calvert County. To the north of this, were looking at that there, too. Were going to stay on top of this. This is alexandria, you said, guys . Can we find out maybe alexandria section of Fairfax County. So that most likely is what i was talking about earlier with that flash flooding. That most likely is going to be that area that we were talking about with want to make sure, cameron run. That could be cameron run or backlick run, right around those areas. Thats the area besaid would be fe what were seeing right there. As far as the other beeping that you saw, we now have a Flood Warning for small streams in loudoun county, Fauquier County until 1 15 tonight. Were seeing gauges indicating rising streams of area rainfall of at least an inch, so stream flooding could be likely. Cannot say this enough. You can see this water rescue happening right now. This is live. And this is a water rescue happening right now in the Fairfax County area of alexandria. We tell you, turn around, dont drowned. This is why. Weve been looking at the rain we got in that period of time of 30 minutes, as this line of storms came through. And some of the rainfall rates are well over an inch. Look at gaithersburg, leesburg area, same deal around fairfax, over an inch, and that was just in one hours time. So, those creeks, streams, all coming over their banks in a hurry. Quantico over an inch, too. And weti there right now east of i95. So, youre going to see the totals continue to come up around annapolis, certainly around pax river and through calvert as well as st. Marys county. If we can switch over to the other computer, ive zoomed right into that Flash Flood Warning that went up earlier today. That was around baileys crossroads, dalecr

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