Severe storms to reload, target 130M from Texas to New England after Midwest blasted by tornadoes, hail
Over 130 million people across more than 12 states are bracing for another round of severe weather beginning Wednesday afternoon, after Tuesday's storms produced tornadoes across southern Wisconsin and damaging wind gusts from Texas to New England.
Over 130 million people across more than 12 states are bracing for another round of severe weather beginning Wednesday afternoon. This follows Tuesday's storms that produced tornadoes across southern Wisconsin and damaging wind gusts from Texas to New England.
Wednesday's threat has shifted slightly east, but a broad Level 2 out of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms covers a corridor including parts of North Texas, the Southern Plains, the Midwest and the Ohio Valley, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC).
A Level 1 threat covers a wider area including the Dallas metro area and Texas Hill Country. To the north, the risk extends across parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, including northern New Jersey and New York City.
A spring severe weather pattern has taken hold across much of the country, with Wednesday's atmospheric setup resembling Tuesday's conditions.
DANGEROUS TORNADOES AND HAIL SLAM THE MIDWEST, PLAINS
Rounds of storms will once again develop over Iowa beginning Wednesday afternoon and charge east along a stalled front draped over southern Wisconsin and Michigan, where more than 70,000 customers were still without power early Wednesday after damage from Tuesday's storms.
More than 100,000 customers were without power across the Midwest and the Great Lakes at the height of Tuesday's severe weather, including 65,000 in Michigan alone, according to PowerOutage.us.
Radar-confirmed tornadoes touched down in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan and National Weather Service (NWS) crews will conduct damage assessment surveys later Wednesday.
Waukesha County, Wisconsin was one of the areas hardest hit by the storms.
A tornado caused significant damage to buildings in Sussex. Video from FOX6 Milwaukee showed snapped power line snapped and several piles of debris with insulation around several buildings.
Some 10 miles north, FOX Weather viewers shared images of numerous downed trees in Colgate. Large baseball-sized hail pelted Oconomowoc, also in Waukesha County.
FOX6 Milwaukee staff also had to shelter-in-place as a tornado-warned storm moved through the metro area Tuesday night. Three-inch hail was reported by the NWS in Madison, Wisconsin.
Parts of eastern Iowa also saw large hail, as well as several tornadoes, including a long rope tornado in Wyoming, Iowa, that was intercepted by FOX Weather Meteorologist Haley Meier and the FOX Weather Beast team.
Powerful wind gusts also took down power poles and blocked several main roads in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The city said emergency workers responded to more than 75 severe weather calls Tuesday and were working to remove debris early Wednesday.
On Wednesday, supercell thunderstorms could begin to form across Missouri, Iowa, and western Illinois, with large hail being the main hazard. Flash flooding is once again possible across this region as storms repeatedly move over the same areas.
FLOOD THREAT INCREASES ACROSS GREAT LAKES AMID HEAVY RAINFALL, RAPID SNOWMELT
Meanwhile, another dryline — the boundary between dry air from the west and warm, moist air from the Gulf — will set up across eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and West Texas through the day on Wednesday.
Supercells and bowing squall lines capable of producing very large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds could form along or just east of this boundary.
Farther north, record warmth in the Ohio Valley and the Mid-Atlantic will fuel scattered afternoon thunderstorms that could pack hail and damaging wind gusts.
Cleveland and Pittsburgh are under the Level 2 risk of severe thunderstorms.
More storms are forecast to develop through the day and track east through the evening, weakening as they reach the coast.
Weaker storms will linger across parts of the Deep South, the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast through Thursday morning.
Most of the country will finally see a break in the severe weather Thursday, except for storms that could produce hail across New York's Capital Region, Central New York and the Finger Lakes Thursday afternoon.
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