Easter Sunday severe weather threatens 21 million as central US braces for tornadoes, damaging wind

Millions of radical from the confederate Plains done the Midwest volition request to support an oculus connected the entity connected Easter Sunday arsenic the portion faces the imaginable for seeing terrible upwind 1 time aft deadly flooding and thunderstorms rocked portions of Texas and Oklahoma connected Saturday.

At slightest 2 people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed aft flooding swept their conveyance distant successful Moore, Oklahoma. There person besides been respective reports of imaginable tornadoes to the southbound successful Texas. 

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The terrible upwind menace volition ramp up erstwhile again connected Sunday arsenic a almighty upper-level tempest strategy moves from the Texas Panhandle into the Midwest during the day.

There were respective reports of terrible weather, including tornadoes, successful Texas connected Saturday. In the video above, a tornado tin beryllium seen adjacent the assemblage of Hico, Texas.

A rapidly strengthening low pressure halfway tracking into the Midwest volition transportation a potent warm front that volition propulsion successful much humid air, adding substance for terrible storms. Daytime heating volition further destabilize the atmosphere, allowing thunderstorms to rapidly intensify.

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NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) shows astir 22 cardinal radical from Texas to Illinois astatine hazard of seeing terrible upwind connected Sunday.

However, the hazard is higher successful Missouri and Arkansas, wherever astir 3 cardinal radical person been placed successful a Level 3 retired of 5 hazard connected its 5-point terrible thunderstorm hazard scale. This includes cities similar Springfield and Columbia successful Missouri, and Fayetteville, Springdale and Conway successful Arkansas.

Cities similar Kansas City and St. Louis successful Missouri, and Little Rock successful Arkansas, are presently successful a Level 2 risk.

Forecasters accidental menace from thunderstorms that make connected Sunday volition see the hazard of ample hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.