Tens of millions of people from the plains to the southeast are preparing for potentially few days of severe weather this week, with forecasters warning that they will damage big h, gusts of wind and even strong tornadoes.
A strong thunderstorm rolled across Oklahoma and Texas to close the weekend on Sunday, but the Fox Prediction Center said the more serious, harsh weather threat would begin late Monday, and at least until Wednesday.
The FOX Prediction Center said it is confident that computer prediction models will bring together components to generate a wide range of harsh weather events.
This includes areas of high low pressure that develop on the plains, drawing warm, moist air from the bay.
It provides the atmospheric energy needed to develop and strengthen the storm.
Additionally, predictors are concerned that strong winds moving beyond the air mass will allow sufficient wind shear (changes in wind speed and height direction) to rotate those storms.
The rapidly developing thunderstorm line could potentially damage gusts and possibly damage tornadoes by Monday night, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC).
Forecasters could develop several supercell thunderstorms before the storm combines into organized lines, and powerful thunderstorms head south through Oklahoma City from southern Wichita in Kansas to 35 interstate corridors south of North Texas, including the Dallas Worth Metrox.
The concern for forecasters is that many storms are expected to develop in the evening, overnight, or early Tuesday.
More than 41 million people from Southern Plains to the southeast face harsh weather threats on Tuesday
Heading on Tuesday, harsh weather threats explode with population and coverage, putting more than 41 million people at risk of bad weather in the states of Texas and Eastern Oklahoma to western Georgia and the Florida Panhandle.
However, more than 3.5 million people in southern Arkansas, northern and central Louisiana, and central and southern Mississippi have now reached level 3 of the five risks on the SPC's five-point severe thunderstorm risk scale.
Cities in the threat zone include Shreveport, Monroe and Bosuire in Louisiana, Pine Bluff in Arkansas, and Jackson in Mississippi.
“We hope to prepare ahead of the system of storms that is developing and intensifying as we work across the West,” said Kendall Smith, a weather meteorologist at Fox. “And by the time we arrive tomorrow (Tuesday), this will be wide, with harsh weather conditions and all the harsh weather materials needed to become a tornado in place.”
Fox Forecast Center said damaging gusts of wind appears to be a major threat from developing storms, but tornadoes can also be a major concern.
Forecasters say some tornadoes may even be EF-2 or higher on the enhanced Fujita scale.
More than 67 million people from Florida to New York face severe weather threats on Wednesday
The severe weather threat will continue to lead to barrels across the United States by Wednesday, putting more than 67 million people at risk of a powerful storm from southeast to mid-Atlantic along the East Coast.
The Fox Forecast Center said the storm boundary on Wednesday could be revitalized with heating that day, which has forecasters worried about the risk of new bad weather.
The SPC placed areas in two of five threats, from southeastern Georgia to southeastern Pennsylvania, including cities such as Virginia, Washington, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Wilmington in North Carolina, Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, and Savanna in Georgia.
