Severe thunderstorms were expected to bring hail, high winds and a tornado threat, affecting parts of the Midwest and South that have been rocked by the weekend’s bad weather.
Authorities warned residents to set up shelters before they went to bed on Tuesday night.
At least two tornadoes were confirmed in Illinois on Tuesday. Before dawn, the storm targeted the state and eastern Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin. Areas in Southern Missouri, Arkansas, Southwest Oklahoma and Northeast Texas were most at risk last night.
“This could be the night we just set it up in the basement for safety,” said Tom Phillip, a meteorologist in Davenport, Iowa, on Tuesday.
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The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for Iowa and Illinois on Tuesday night, saying a confirmed twister was spotted southwest of Chicago near Bryant, Illinois. Officials said another tornado made landfall in the community of Corona in western Illinois on Tuesday morning. Local news reports showed wind damage to several businesses there.
The storm is expected to hit some areas hit by severe weather, with dozens of tornadoes in the past few days killing at least 32 people. This means worse for those whose homes have been destroyed in Arkansas, Iowa and Illinois.
When a tornado hit Little Rock, Arkansas last Friday, Kimberly Shaw peeked outside to film the storm. Then, when the glass door behind her shattered and the wind nearly sucked her in, she suffered a painful leg injury that needed stitches. I decided to be more cautious this time, so I said that I would rush to my home’s underground shelter.
“The original plan was, ‘If we see a tornado coming, we’ll go into shelter,'” Shaw said. “But now it seems you don’t see it coming. is needed.”
A strong thunderstorm hit the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois early Tuesday, bringing winds up to 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers per hour) and baseball-sized hail. No injuries were reported, but a tree fell in Moline, Illinois, damaging some businesses.
Winds of 75 to 80 miles per hour (120 to 128 kilometers per hour) and 2 to 3 inches (5 ~8 centimeters) of hail. The agency received a report of a semi truck overturning in the wind in Lee County, about 95 miles (153 km) west of Chicago.
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Severe storms could produce strong tornadoes and large hail on Wednesday in eastern Illinois and lower Michigan, as well as the Ohio Valley, which includes Indiana and Ohio, the Storm Prediction Center said. I was. The weather threat extends southwest to parts of Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Further south and west, the fire risk remained high.
A ferocious storm that began on Friday and continued through the weekend has caused deadly tornadoes in 11 states as the system rolls through Arkansas and into the South, Midwest and Northeast.
According to Ryan Bunker, a meteorologist at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the same conditions that caused these storms — an area with a combination of low pressure and strong southerly winds — hit early Tuesday through Wednesday. It is said to have caused bad weather.
Typically, dry air from the west rises over the Rocky Mountains and collides with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. These conditions make the United States prone to tornadoes and other violent storms. increase.
Dramatic temperature changes are expected, with highs of 74 F (23 C) in Des Moines and 86 F (30 C) in Kansas City on Tuesday, dropping to 40 F (4 C) or lower overnight. rice field. In Little Rock, Arkansas, Tuesday’s highest temperature was 89 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius), tying the record set in 1880.
Snowstorm warnings were in effect for most of North Dakota and most of South Dakota until at least Wednesday night. Minnesota has issued a winter storm warning for the north.
The fire hazard persisted in parts of western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, northeastern New Mexico, and southeastern Colorado, with low humidity, dry vegetation, and high winds. In Oklahoma, authorities urged some residents near the town of Weatherford to evacuate as wildfires erupted.
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