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Just a quick not before I leave.
We are having some more bumpy weather coming in this evening.
Please be safe in the storms.
Be nice to each other,
Love you all,
Holly
We are having some more bumpy weather coming in this evening.
Please be safe in the storms.
Be nice to each other,
Love you all,
Holly
We are under a high wid advisory and flash flood watch here.
Hugs Ev
UPDATED By WeatherBug Meteorologist, Patrick O'Hara
UPDATED 7 PM EST, February 11, 2009
The same potent storm system that brought deadly severe weather to the southern Plains last night is sweeping across the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and South this evening, bringing another round of damaging winds and possibly a few quick forming tornadoes. This storm risk will continue through tonight.
A Tornado Watch are in effect from central Ohio to Eastern Kentucky, also including western West Virginia and the Appalachians of Virginia and North Carolina. Cities affected include Columbus, Ohio and Beckley and Huntingdon, W.V. Additional watches may be issued as the evening progresses.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect from northern Georgia to western Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh and Atlanta.
WeatherBug Meteorologist Rachel Peterson has the latest on today`s severe weather threat in this exclusive WeatherBug Video.
All of this early-season storminess is due to a large storm system extending from the central Gulf Coast northeast into the Great Lakes. Strong to severe thunderstorms are occurring ahead of and along the system`s powerful cold front that is currently stretching from Ohio to northern Georgia. These storms are strengthening this evening as instability grows and damaging winds in excess of 65 mph and isolated tornadoes have been reported.
In the system`s northern and northwest flank, heavy rain could trigger flash flooding, especially across parts of Michigan, Illinois and Missouri, where rivers are already swollen from recent rain and snowmelt.
As the cold front moves across the Appalachian Mountains into more stable air, the threat for strong to severe thunderstorms will rapidly diminish. However, any rain and thunderstorms that do cross the mountains overnight will bring down potentially damaging wind gusts to the surface.
Due to the high wind threat in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, Mid-Atlantic and southern New England, High Wind Watches and Warnings are in effect.
Sustained winds will be 20 to 30 mph with wind gusts exceeding 55 mph with 20 to 30 mph along and behind the front. This will be enough to cause structural damage and power outages in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys today and the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast tonight into Thursday.
These storms have quite a history of damage. One person was injured when he was pinned in his car near Monterey, Tenn., and 71 mph gusts were measured near Pleasant, Ky. Western Kentucky Univ., in Bowling Green reported 68 mph gusts. In all, there have been more than 150 wind reports, so far.