LIVE UPDATES – Here's the latest on dangerous storms in progress in the South right now:
Here's what's happening now.More than 110000 homes, businesses and other buildings are without power across Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. More than one third of those are in Alabama, according to PowerOutage.us.
Each outage can represent multiple people on a single account, meaning the actual number of people impacted by the outages is much higher.reports of high winds today across more than half a dozen states. The highest measured so far in reports filtered by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center is 70 mph in Central Mississippi's Winston County.First responders clear roads after severe weather moved through Troup County, Georgia, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
A tornado warning means it’s time to take action. A tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar. At this point, you should immediately go to your shelter. This can be anything from a storm cellar to any interior, low-level room without windows. There is imminent danger to life and property. Tornado warnings are issued by your local forecast office and typically include a much smaller area, like a city or county.
Here's what this term means: From the Spanish word for "straight," these windstorms leave wide, long areas of straight-line wind damage. The winds can be as strong as 60 to 100 mph or higher in extreme cases. To be called a derecho, the thunderstorm-generated high winds and wind damage should cover a distance of at least 400 miles long and be at least 60 miles wide, according to a 2016 proposal led by Stephen Corfidi.
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