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Following a volatile eruption of severe weather across the Plains on Friday, resulting in nearly 80 preliminary tornado reports, the pattern unfolding across the nation's midsection on Saturday may be eerily similar to Friday, bringing hazards such as damaging wind gusts, large hail, flash flooding and large tornadoes. To put into perspective how numerous the storm reports were on Friday, AccuWeather Meteorologist Alex Duffus noted that the last day that there were more than 75 filtered tornado
hours, but that doesn t mean we won t see another one. seven tornado reports between yesterday and today, and more than 200 wind reports with the system. over a million customers without power, kentucky and tennessee really hit the hardest with this storm. the wind and also have the tornadic storms. we re seeing damaging winds, possibly a few tornadoes with this large hail. you can see the area shaded in orange. that s the area we re paying the closest attention to as we go through the next couple hours. these are fast-moving storm. at one time the storms were traveling 75 to 80 miles per hour. that s why when the warnings pop up, you have to get to your safe spots incredibly fast. we have active tornado warnings, just to the east of cincinnati, the hot pitch boxes, that s a storm that s possibly producing a tornado as we speak.
Dodge City 2016 was an incredible day for the Netweather / WeatherHoliday storm chasers, as they witnessed an amazing seventeen tornadoes across three hours.