From hail and lightning in Texas to flooding in the Carolinas, severe thunderstorms persisted on May 9.
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00:00As we take a look at the ongoing severe weather right now, we have a cluster of
00:03strong and severe storms in Alabama and Mississippi,
00:06another round into parts of Texas as well. And otherwise, a lot of the action
00:10from the Carolinas has moved offshore, so that's less of a threat at the moment.
00:13But we will revisit that tomorrow into North Florida and South
00:17Georgia. So let's take a look at what's going on here. We're going to populate
00:19the map with some lightning, and there's a lot of that here
00:22into parts of central Alabama and into Mississippi as well. So
00:25numerous severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect here. Lamar County of
00:29Alabama, also into Pickens County of Alabama, west of Tuscaloosa,
00:33western Greene County, northern Sumpter County, northern parts of Kemper County,
00:36Mississippi, far southern at Knoxville County,
00:38then also into areas around Holmes County, Yazoo County, and
00:42northern parts of, well, southwestern Italia County, and western
00:45and northern Madison County of Mississippi, where ongoing severe
00:48thunderstorms are in progress. Some of these storms
00:51have brought some hail. Here's a recent report there from just,
00:55what, 30 minutes ago, 6.32 central time. We're looking at ping pong ball size
00:59hail there in New Hope, Mississippi. And as we head farther west, we've had
01:03some nasty storms here into Texas as well. Some of these have been bringing
01:06some large hail and damaging thunderstorm winds.
01:09Areas around Waco, along I-35, just tremendous amount of lightning strikes
01:13here. Also along I-45 into Fairfield, Texas,
01:16we're dealing with some strong and severe storms.
01:18So areas like western Freestone County, southern Navarro County,
01:21much of Limestone County, under a severe thunderstorm warning. Then into
01:24McLennan County, home to Waco, northwestern Falls County, severe
01:27thunderstorm warning for you, north of Temple and Killeen and Bell County.
01:30And then another nasty storm here into Llano and Marble Falls, and this storm
01:34has a history of some rotation earlier. We can
01:38take a look at this from a couple of different options here, but
01:40off from the east, we can look at this storm hazards. And there is some hail out
01:45here south of Llano, about also the size of
01:48ping pong balls there in an area south of Llano. This might be
01:52a little more remote between Oxford and Click there into
01:55southern parts of, this would be Llano County. Also
02:00moving into northwestern Blanco County and southern Burnett County, we'll have
02:02some issues there with some hail potential as well. So
02:06there's the the more cohesive view of what's going on
02:09on radar. When we take a look at the watches, our
02:12watches still continue. Many severe thunderstorm watches here. There are
02:16three of them that survive at this hour, and they're running here into central
02:20Texas and also into parts of northeast Texas,
02:23into southern parts of Arkansas, northern Louisiana.
02:26Another one from Mississippi into Alabama too. And then
02:29fragments of a tornado watch here near Dothan, Alabama.
02:32Also a tornado watch that may have a slightly greater threat comparing the
02:36two from Waco West to areas south of
02:38Llano, Texas. So overall, we still are tracking some strong
02:42storms. There's been a couple of severe thunderstorms into parts of West
02:45Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania today. A little hail there, but the main
02:49event has been in Mississippi, Alabama, mainly near and north or near and south
02:53of I-20 to near and north of I-10. Central Texas
02:57is in the hot seat at the moment. It's pretty hot in some spots here. We
03:00have a 94 degree reading an hour ago into Austin.
03:03Still 87 in Corpus Christi and El Paso. Other areas are a little cooler, 72 into
03:09Atlanta, Jacksonville right now. Tomorrow, where are we going from here?
03:12We've got some more thunderstorms. These are going to be severe
03:15in south Georgia and north Florida. Some nearby areas could also face
03:19a risk. We're looking at hail and locally heavy rain
03:22and damaging wind are the main issues here. About 7 million people facing this
03:26threat. Albany, Georgia, Savannah, Jacksonville,
03:29and Tallahassee, four cities at risk of wind, hail, and flash flooding.
03:34And another storyline that we're going to be keeping an eye on will be the
03:37return of some of those heavy rainers into
03:40Houston eventually. We'll look at that with the extended forecast
03:43in a little bit. But again, Friday storms there in north Florida.