The South is cleaning up after a large, punishing outbreak of severe thunderstorms that produced about two dozen tornadoes Wednesday into Thursday morning, leading to multiple injuries and at least two deaths.
Whereas the Storm Prediction Center declared the Wednesday storm threat a level 4 out of 5 across the South, Thursday’s threat in the East was placed at level 2 out of 5. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville are all in this zone.
Meanwhile, an energetic dip in the jet stream will be cruising overhead, with fierce winds racing highway speeds a mile or two above the ground. That would impact wind shear, or a change of wind speed/direction with height, onto storms, allowing one or two of them to rotate. Otherwise, storms could mix strong jet stream momentum to the surface in the form of damaging wind gusts.
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