Happy Easter, everyone! On this special holiday we find ourselves tracking the potential for severe thunderstorms late today into the wee hours of Monday. This action comes along and ahead of a potent low pressure rolling from the Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley.
Let’s start this off with the very latest Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
Here’s a rough outline of how the day may play out:
- Scattered showers and a few storms will be around this morning into early this afternoon.
- As a warm front lifts northward, showers and storms will lift north-northeast with it this afternoon. A few of those could be strong or severe.
- As the warm and moist air presses in from the southwest, we will be watching for a line of thunderstorms to develop across western Tennessee and western Kentucky by evening.
- That line races east across the state with the potential to produce severe weather.
- Additional strong or severe storms may try to fire up after that as our low zips through.
- Storms will also produce torrential rains that can cause flash flooding issues in any one location across the state.
- High winds are also a good bet, even without true severe storms. Wind gusts of 50mph or greater may cause issues from this evening into early Monday.
I will have another update later today, so check back. I leave you with your storm trackers…
Possible Watch Areas
Have a good one and take care.
Thanks Chris, and Happy Easter to you and your Family. This bout of severe weather we will definitely have to watch. I am very concerned with areas in the “enhance sectors” of Western Kentucky and south into areas around Nashville, Tennessee and on east where those folks have already experience “long tract” Tornadoes earlier this Spring. I pray this won’t happen. Everyone have a quiet and blessed Easter Sunday.
Unfortunately, major damage is being reported in Monroe, Louisiana according to scanner reports from an unconfirmed tornado. At least 20 homes severely damaged.
Correction: confirmed tornado
PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Tornado Watch issued for much of Mississippi, some of Louisiana and Arkansas. As the day rolls on, Alabama and Georgia could be next for stronger tornadoes. Keep people in these states in your thoughts/prayers. Wouldn’t hurt to let friends/relatives there know even if folks in “Dixie Alley” are somewhat use to these conditions.
Almost nonstop t-storms the last few hours in Nashville so flooding is a concern. Kentucky counties near the Tennessee line may be able to hear the thunder already.
Hopefully, Yazoo City in Mississippi will avoid this tornadic storm. But, they are in the crosshairs again as they are no strangers to tornadoes over the past 10 years.
It’s a mild, 65-degree day here in the Chicago area, but the clouds have taken over with rain on the way by evening, followed by strong winds and snow mixing with the rain by morning. We’re not expecting any accumulations with the snow, though.
We had a steady rain for a couple of hours last night, with almost a half-inch falling throughout the area.
There’s already a Wind Advisory for most of Illinois (and Kentucky too) for Monday morning into the early afternoon. This is our third wind advisory in just the last two weeks.
I see all the storms on radar that are in Tennessee now and about to enter Kentucky. Hopefully everyone can stay safe on this stormy Easter Sunday.
Mississippi getting hammered with large tornado. Watching WJTV livestreaming.