The first severe storm round pushed through the plains on Thursday, the duration was expected to be an active weekend for a severe climate.
More than 1 million people were included in an area of level 3 of 5 of the NOAA Storm Prediction Center, with OmahaNebraska, in the bull eye.
While the city itself was lost when seeing the strongest of the storms, it did not prevent the warning sirens from being on the north side of the city, and the tornadoes are dressed in the nearby Iowa.
Several storm hunters, including Fox Weather Storm Tracker Brandon Copic, a captured video or a tornado that formed and then rolling through the fields of the Missouri Valley, Iowa, on Thursday night.
In the east NebraskaThe winds of more than 80 mph and the hail of the size of a baseball caused what appeared to resemble a dust storm or simply liked around Schuyler, Nebraska.
The region was under several alerts at that time, and the exclusive storm tracers of Fox Weather Corey Gerken and Brandon Copic captured the video scenes.
The dust was so thick that it reduced visibilities outside Omaha and made the trip treacherous.
Despite the scenes, there were no reports of extended damage and the informed energy cuts generally remained below a few thousand customers.
According to radar data, storms seemed to be great grenades, with significant values of integrated liquid vertically, indicating the potential to damage the ice.
The threat of tornado He continued well in the night with a great tornado seen around Tabor, Iowa, after sunset.
The videos and the Doppler radar indicated that a strong tornado went through Fremont County, and the National Meteorological Service office even described the event as a “particularly dangerous situation.”
The NWS increased the alert to a rare emergency of Tornado and said that the tornado headed towards the city of Essex, Iowa.
The supercell hit the communities in mile boxes, but due to dusk, storm hunters and local officials were limited to determine the immediate scope of the damage.
Storm observers described the tornado as in the form of cone to avant -garde, but they limited themselves to observing the periods of duration of the vortex only when the lightning illuminated the sky.
It was reported that hundreds of customers were without energy around Essex, since energy posts and debris were broken some roads.
The first to respond were seen gathering on the afternoon of the day, preparing to enter the search and rescue mode for any possible victim trapped in rubble.
For Friday, the threat of severe climate will be changed to the east and will expand from the southern plains to the region of the great lakes. It is expected that numerous thunderstorms will develop in the afternoon and night.
The Fox forecast center said the environment will support a wide area of severe storms, potentially affecting a large area that extends from Detroit to Chicago to the southwest to Kansas City, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and northwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in Texas.
These storms will mainly pack a harmful wind and a great hall of hail. The risk of tornado, although it is not zero, will be low due to the lack of individual supercells. Instead, storm groups will develop along the cold front.
On Saturday you will see the turn of the severe storm threat area just a little. Dispersed severe storms seem possible from the center of Texas to the Ohio Valley on Saturday afternoon and night. This will also indicate the beginning of heavy rains and possible floods as storms repeatedly wallow the same areas, said Fox’s prognosis center.
In Texas, including Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the prognosis is a bit more uncertain due to the presence of morning storms. These morning storms could “eat” the energy available in the atmosphere and limit the activity later in the day. In case the storms are developed, they damage wind bursts up to 60 mph and hail are the main concerns. You cannot rule out a tornado or two.
Easter Sunday will be a day to see, since the ingredients can join for a more formidable severe climate event, including more tornadoes.
A region that has been hit very strong by Severe climate Around the past month it can be in the sight: portions of the southern plains, the lower and a half valley of Disippi and the region of the spiral.
The details will be clarified as Easter Sunday. Stay with Fox Weather for the last developments.
