Swiftly moving storms led to numerous tornado warnings throughout the Great Lakes area on May 7.
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00:00This storm system is still spinning across South Dakota and North Dakota.
00:05We are still getting pieces of energy around it and that's what's kicking up thunderstorms.
00:09You can see there's a lot of thunderstorms from Iowa through Wisconsin, Illinois,
00:13Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, even Tennessee and North Carolina.
00:18But with these thunderstorms, not all of them are severe.
00:21We're going to go in on some of those severe thunderstorms.
00:24A lot of the warnings fading away in Iowa at this point in time.
00:26We still have some severe thunderstorm warnings going through in places like Wisconsin,
00:32southern Wisconsin, Madison, near a severe thunderstorm warning.
00:35So portions of Dane County, watch out for that.
00:37A lot of activity there.
00:38And as you work your way south then along Interstate 39,
00:42there's still going to be some stormy weather as you get into Illinois.
00:46Farther to the east, so this is where a lot of that severe weather has focused in,
00:49especially across Michigan, southern Michigan,
00:53where near Kalamazoo, we're talking about that FedEx facility in the Portage area,
00:57which is south of Kalamazoo.
00:59So that's where we saw some of these storms that are near Detroit go through first.
01:02And then another wave recently.
01:04So there's actually two rounds there in the Portage area.
01:07Farther south, though, there are still several tornado warnings in place.
01:10And this is where we're concerned with that severe weather threat ongoing right now.
01:14So we'll start from north to south with some of these tornado warnings.
01:17And just to give you an idea here of what is going on with these storms.
01:22Again, we have had at least potential for rotation in many of them,
01:26including this one here that you do see.
01:29This is going to continue to work its way off towards the east.
01:31This was spotted by emergency management there on the ground.
01:35And it's still pushing around 30 to 45 miles per hour,
01:39most of these storms as they trek their way on east.
01:41So that's what we're getting a sense of with this movement.
01:44So if you're in this area, again, you make sure you're seeking that shelter,
01:48Putnam County, Ohio, and portions of Henry County, Ohio.
01:51Farther south, we have another tornado warning.
01:53And this is still working its way off towards the east.
01:56Nine o'clock eastern time is now when this warning last till.
01:59Originally, the storm was warned with this warning off towards the west
02:02as it worked through Mercer County.
02:04And with that warning, we did have storm spotters that saw it on the ground there.
02:08So we do know that this storm certainly can produce a tornado and has that potential too.
02:14And we are seeing at least some indication there of some strong winds
02:18counteracting with one another in the atmosphere.
02:21So the potential there is that rotation could be reaching the ground.
02:24That will cross its way across Interstate 75.
02:27You can see pretty clearly here the couplet near the Greenville area.
02:30Unfortunately, that's still working its way off towards northeast,
02:34warned for a tornado.
02:35I'm expecting they'll probably put another warning on that storm
02:39as we get new radar frames coming in,
02:41because it's getting to the end of that warning at this point in time.
02:44So Dark County is still dealing with that warning.
02:47But I think we'll see another one through eastern Dark County
02:50as we go through the next couple minutes here.
02:52Farther south, pushing our way into Indiana.
02:55By the way, the Ohio-Indiana state line is right here on your screen.
03:00So as you get into Indiana, we do have a couple more tornado warnings unfolding.
03:05This one in Union County, Indiana, and another one here in Franklin County, Indiana.
03:10Both of these here, they are pretty active warnings, unfortunately,
03:14as we deal with this storm system.
03:16This same storm earlier was producing a particularly dangerous situation
03:21as far as the tornado warning.
03:22So basically, we could see, meteorologists could see all the levels of the radar
03:28that there was debris potentially being lofted into the sky.
03:32And so that's why they were concerned about this being a very large storm
03:36with a potentially damaging tornado.
03:37So we're still watching that circulation there,
03:41continuing to deal with this storm as it works its way off towards the east.
03:44So that's another area that you have to keep in mind
03:46we're dealing with this storm.
03:47And I'm going to take you farther out,
03:49because I did want to go back to the one near Greenville.
03:52We did get a new warning with this just in.
03:55And this shows you that Miami County, Ohio and Shelby County, Ohio
03:59are now under that new tornado warning until 9.15.
04:03By the way, this storm is still moving pretty quickly to the east.
04:07They estimate it around 50 miles per hour at the National Weather Service office.
04:11So just to give you a sense of how quickly some of these storms
04:13are working their way through, 50 miles per hour puts us out about there.
04:19So it will work its way through some of these locations
04:21really within the next 15 minutes or so.
04:24Covington, West Covington, Houston, so you can see some of those places on the list.
04:29These are swiftly moving storms in some spots,
04:3140, 50 miles per hour is mostly what we've seen here.
04:34I do want to take you a little bit farther to the south,
04:36because I believe we have some more tornado warnings to cover really quickly
04:40as we go into southern Ohio and Kentucky.
04:44The border between the two, Adams County, Ohio and portions of Lewis County, Kentucky
04:49are under that tornado warning.
04:50So if you're there, you do want to seek your shelter.
04:53Let's talk about where these storms are going to be going here
04:57for the next couple of hours.
04:58We still have tornado watch boxes that are in place through Ohio,
05:02portions of Indiana, even as far south as Kentucky.
05:05So we're not out of the risk for severe weather.
05:07And that's where we've been highlighting here that threat for severe weather
05:10as we go through the night.
05:11Isolated tornadoes, large hail.
05:13These thunderstorms keep sliding their way east into western Pennsylvania,
05:17into portions of West Virginia too.
05:19By the time we get into the morning hours though,
05:21it's a rain threat as it moves off the east coast.
05:24However, there's another risk for severe weather.
05:26Some of the same spots getting into tomorrow,
05:28the Ohio, Mississippi River confluence,
05:30Cape Girardeau, Paducah, Kentucky, Louisville.
05:34Those are the areas that have that high risk for severe weather,
05:37which does include tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds.
05:40So a greater level for severe weather as we head through tomorrow.
05:44And there'll be another threat of severe weather into Thursday.