The same storm system will also generate flooding and heavy snow, while record warmth surges out ahead of it
Before ejecting into the Central States, the storm dumped 3 to 5 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada early in the week and, on Wednesday night, caused Lufthansa Flight 469 from Austin to Frankfurt, Germany, to divert to Dulles Airport in Virginia after encountering severe turbulence over Tennessee. At leastSevere thunderstorms on Wednesday produced a spattering of reports of hail in from Texas to Indiana and Kentucky while a brief tornado toppled trees and power lines in northwest Alabama.
Then the actual cold front will swing through after, with a line of thunderstorms materializing along it. That line will feature widespread winds of 60 to 70 mph, some hail to quarter size and a number of embedded circulations capable of whipping up quick-hitting spin-up tornadoes. Such QLCSs, or quasi-linear convective systems — aggressive squall lines with transient kinks of rotation along their leading edges — ordinarily produce primarily EF0 or EF1 tornadoes.
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