Severe Weather Outbreak Threatens Central and Southern U.S.

A severe weather outbreak is currently unfolding across the central and southern United States, bringing dangerous conditions that could rank among the biggest severe weather events of the year. The multi-day event is stretching from Friday through Sunday, affecting an area spanning over 500,000 square miles and impacting more than 100 million people across the region.

AccuWeather meteorologists are warning that powerful wind gusts will be the most common cause of damage, with the potential for hundreds of incidents of damaging, straight-line winds. While not technically a derecho by strict meteorological definition, the intensity and widespread nature of this thunderstorm complex mirrors the destructive characteristics of these rapidly-moving windstorm events. Some of the stronger thunderstorms could produce hail the size of marbles and golf balls, with even larger hail possible in the biggest storms.

The severe weather risk will reach portions of the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan on Friday, then shift eastward through Saturday and Sunday. The threat extends to major metropolitan areas including St. Louis, Chicago, Nashville, New Orleans, and Atlanta. Saturday's most favorable zone for significant tornado activity could center on parts of Missouri, central and southern Illinois, and northern Arkansas, while Sunday could see the strongest concentrations of tornadoes across central Kentucky through Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi into western Georgia.

One particularly concerning aspect is the timing of tornado risk extending into the nighttime hours Friday and Saturday nights, which significantly increases the danger. Torrential downpours accompanying these storms could flood city streets and cause ponding on poorly-drained highways. By Sunday, as the system advances toward the Atlantic coast, the threat becomes more linear, primarily from strong straight-line wind gusts and heavy rainfall, but travel disruptions including flight delays and cancellations are expected along major corridors from Charlotte to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City.

Additional flooding concerns loom for Kentucky and surrounding states, where streams and rivers remain saturated from previous heavy rain events. Ground conditions are primed to react quickly to additional rainfall, with one to three inches possible in twelve hours across affected areas, and potentially much heavier rain if the storm system stalls temporarily over any region.

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