A substantial severe weather outbreak is expected across the Deep South Wednesday. A level 4 out of 5 risk of severe weather is up for most of northeast Louisiana, Mississippi, southwest Tennessee and western Alabama.
The storms are set to charge through Mississippi and western Alabama during the afternoon and early evening. By nightfall, storms will still be severe as they roll into the Southeast before gradually weakening.Additional severe thunderstorms are possible along the East Coast on Thursday, and there are signs that April is favored to feature considerable above-average severe thunderstorm and tornado activity across the Lower 48.
“Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines,” wrote the National Weather Service in Mobile, Ala. “Widespread power outages are expected.” Wednesday in portions of the Tennessee Valley as well as Texas, where several such blazes erupted Tuesday.Daylight dawned on severe thunderstorms over the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri, western Arkansas and extreme southeastern Oklahoma, as well as in northeastern Texas east of Interstate 35. Those storms fired up late Tuesday along a dryline, or the leading edge of dry air from the Desert Southwest.
Even apart from any thunderstorms, winds might gust up to 50 mph ahead of the squall line and then over 35 mph in the wake of the storms as winds switch around out of the northwest.
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