Deadly storms charge east threatening 58 million from Texas to Northeast on Thursday

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A deadly severe weather strategy continues to complaint eastbound Thursday and is expected to teardrop crossed much than a twelve states, from parts of Texas to the densely populated mid-Atlantic and Northeast, placing implicit 58 cardinal Americans straight successful the way of its destructive forces.

This comes aft the severe upwind turned deadly connected Wednesday arsenic respective tornadoes ravaged parts of the Mississippi Valley. Meanwhile, a once-in-a-generation flooding event is expected from Arkansas to Indiana done the weekend.

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Residents of Nashville, Tennessee, endured a harrowing Wednesday nighttime arsenic a relentless barrage of Tornado Warnings swept done the metropolis and surrounding areas of Middle Tennessee. The storms forced edifice guests astatine Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center to determination to the basement successful the pre-dawn hours of Thursday.

Footage by Mike Hockett shows dozens of radical sheltering and making their mode downstairs arsenic tornado sirens sound.

"Stuck successful Nashville for a 3rd nighttime aft each flights to Chicago were canceled for weather, and present woken up astatine 3 a.m. for a tornado warning," Hockett captioned the footage. "All of america astatine the Gaylord Opryland moving into the basement."

Amidst aggregate Tornado Warnings impacting Middle Tennessee, the politician has declared a authorities of emergency.

In Dickson County, troopers were prioritizing roadworthy clearing and checking for stranded drivers aboriginal Thursday greeting arsenic storms rolled through.

Tennessee State Troopers successful Dickson County were actively moving to wide roads and guarantee the information of motorists arsenic aggregate Tornado Warnings were successful effect crossed Middle Tennessee.

(Tennessee Highway Patrol)

The overnight events followed the melodramatic seizure of a ample and almighty tornado by FOX Weather Exclusive Storm Tracker Brandon Copic connected Wednesday evening. He filmed the monolithic twister arsenic it roared adjacent Lake City, Arkansas. Authorities issued a Tornado Emergency – the astir dire of tornado alerts – for towns successful the way of the storm, specified arsenic Leachville and Monette.

"You request to beryllium underground," Copic said successful the video. "You volition not past this tornado if you are supra ground."

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Massive tornado spotted successful Arkansas

FOX Weather exclusive Storm Tracker Brandon Copic captured video of a monstrous tornado connected the crushed adjacent Lake City, Arkansas, connected Wednesday.

While the wide hazard level has somewhat decreased from Wednesday's "high risk," a Level 3 retired of 5 alert remains successful effect from northeastern Texas, including Texarkana, to West Tennessee, including Memphis. Meanwhile, a wider country faces a Level 2 retired of 5 hazard from Central Texas to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

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These storms could driblet precise ample hail (larger than golf ball-sized) crossed the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex connected Thursday morning. In general, hail volition beryllium the main interest with Thursday morning's storms arsenic they mostly enactment northbound of the beforehand and elevated successful nature.

Severe storms volition proceed to occurrence done the time and whitethorn sneak southbound of the beforehand and go surface-based, the FOX Forecast Center said. Should this happen, a notable summation successful the hazard of tornadoes volition go evident from northeastern Texas into Mississippi. Some of these tornadoes could beryllium beardown (EF-2 to EF-3). 

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Another circular of elevated storms is apt from precocious Thursday into aboriginal Friday and volition enactment a hazard of ample hail arsenic storms overrun the now-stalled beforehand crossed cardinal and northwestern Texas and into confederate Oklahoma overnight.

Several clusters of beardown to terrible storms are imaginable passim the time from the Ohio Valley into the mid-Atlantic. These storms volition chiefly endanger damaging 60-plus-mph winds, but a tornado oregon 2 volition besides beryllium possible. 

Louisville, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Washington, D.C., are conscionable immoderate of the cities that are successful this threatened area.