Severe weather to return tornado danger to the South

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Severe thunderstorms will ignite across portions of the southern U.S. early in the week, threatening flooding downpours, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes.

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00:00 I'm Ariella Scalise and enjoy the quiet weather while we have it.

00:04 Good day to maybe do any kind of yard work.

00:07 If today is maybe a day that you can travel ahead of Thanksgiving,

00:10 getting out early will be beneficial because we are going to be tracking

00:13 storms returning into the south as we head into the coming days.

00:17 So starting nice today, New Orleans 73 with sunshine, Jackson 69,

00:21 Dallas 68, San Antonio 71.

00:24 So very comfortable out there for today.

00:27 Heading into the day on Sunday, still into parts of North Texas,

00:30 West Texas, South Texas.

00:32 Things are mild and dry, but notice where we start to see the rain and

00:36 storms setting back up from Wichita to Oklahoma City, Dallas to Houston.

00:41 That's where we're gonna be seeing the rain and

00:42 the thunderstorms take shape as we head into our Sunday.

00:45 Sunday afternoon into Sunday evening, there will be a small area here,

00:49 primarily in northern parts of Texas throughout Oklahoma,

00:51 say from Wichita Falls up to Oklahoma City, where we could see severe

00:55 thunderstorms, we're talking about torrential downpours within some of those

00:58 storms and storms that could produce hail.

01:01 At times we could see some damaging wind gusts and

01:02 a few of these thunderstorms 50 to 60 miles per hour.

01:05 Accurately local storm acts up to 70 miles per hour, so

01:08 some travel along 35 and 40 could be impacted with some strong to severe

01:12 thunderstorms through Sunday.

01:14 Let's start to time that out.

01:15 I've got your early tomorrow morning as we start to see that rain really taking

01:18 shape there into Kansas and Oklahoma down into Texas.

01:23 This is throughout the afternoon, so 12 o'clock again,

01:25 eastern zones here of the states.

01:27 We'll start to see more thunderstorms erupting as we head into Sunday afternoon

01:31 and Sunday evening, and then we start to see things push a bit farther north with

01:34 the rain here, so at times some beneficial rain.

01:37 But again, watching for some thunderstorms still.

01:39 Monday, if you're trying to get out early for some travel,

01:42 that's where those impacts are gonna still be around throughout Louisiana,

01:46 into Mississippi, and into Arkansas.

01:48 That's where we could see those thunderstorms pushing through.

01:50 It's this area between our front, between the cold front and

01:53 the warm front that we're watching for that most activity moving on through,

01:57 where we highlight the area for severe thunderstorms.

02:00 All modes of severe weather are gonna be possible within this area from Shreveport

02:04 just to the south of Memphis and to the north of New Orleans.

02:07 Isolated tornadoes, hail, and

02:09 torrential downpours in addition to the damaging winds, 60 to 70 miles per hour.

02:13 Accurately local storm acts up to 80 miles per hour.

02:16 So a large area which includes parts of 20 and 55, that risk for some,

02:20 which means severe thunderstorms are possible in parts of the area.

02:24 So we're not talking numerous or widespread, but

02:26 just really the first impacts we've seen really since September in this part of

02:30 the country when it comes to severe weather.

02:32 The severe weather risk does shift a bit east as we head into the day on Tuesday

02:36 from Atlanta to make it down into Tallahassee.

02:39 Mostly gonna be watching for the flooding downpours in this area, but

02:42 also some of these storms could have hail.

02:45 So heads up if you are traveling as we head into Tuesday.

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