Severe storms once again target the Plains

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AccuWeather was forecasting live as severe storms brought flash flooding and hail to parts of Texas and Arkansas on June 3.

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00:00 We are talking about again more storms progressing their way in a southward

00:03 fashion here, a southeastward fashion throughout Texas and Oklahoma and

00:07 Arkansas. And some of these storms have been really robust here with drenching

00:11 rain and some power outages. Some parts of McCurtain County near Ida Bell,

00:15 Oklahoma and also across the state line into Arkansas with a lot of power

00:18 outages and trees, power lines down and a string of flash flood warnings here

00:22 too. We're gonna keep a close watch on that. Additionally, some thunderstorms

00:25 still going strong here into a southern Wisconsin. So no surprise. Our top

00:29 story here, the severe weather threat. And we're watching those storms through

00:33 the day tomorrow as well into the Midwest after a stormy Sunday in

00:36 Platt Center, Nebraska. You've got a little break today, but the threat for

00:40 strong thunderstorms will return here tomorrow. That's right. Quite a light

00:44 show going on there into a Nebraska. We're to take you out to live to

00:47 El Dorado, Arkansas here for our top story. And Jeff looks quiet here right

00:53 now. But boy, we've been following that vigorous line of thunderstorms as it

00:57 slides its way southeast. And it's a very widespread one here into

01:01 northwest Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, northeast Texas. Huge severe

01:05 thunderstorm warning issued by the National Weather Service in Shreveport.

01:08 In fact, the warning itself, if we were to measure that it runs a pretty

01:13 impressive length of about 143 miles. Again, I didn't grab quite the pinnacle

01:20 there off to the west, about 143 mile long severe thunderstorm warning. That

01:24 is about as big as they come here, at least in the U. S. And we're dealing

01:28 with again a large area with severe thunderstorm potential damaging winds

01:32 moving into Marion County. Still heavy rain in Cass County, Texas, Morris

01:36 County, Harrison, Eastern Upshur, Greg County on Dhe. Then into the

01:41 northwestern part of Louisiana, Cato Parish, Bozier Parish, Webster and

01:45 Claiborne Parish. Then on the Arkansas side, Union County, Columbia County,

01:49 Lafayette County, Miller County, also parts of Nevada and Hempstead County.

01:52 Still under this same huge severe thunderstorm warning. And again, it's

01:56 not necessarily an unusually strong thunderstorm, but it is impacting a

02:00 large area, and that's the reason for this large warning. So you can see that

02:04 there is a report of Louisville, Arkansas facing multiple trees down in

02:08 the northern part of the county. That's where the storms have been recently.

02:10 Texarkana, multiple trees down across the county, and then also we've seen

02:14 some hail and some flooding here. You can see street and roadway flooding

02:18 streets closed there in Nash, Texas, and that's not far from Texarkana. And

02:23 then other reports here you could see into Foreman trees and power lines down

02:26 countywide. And with the Weather Service says that usually it's a sign that

02:30 there have been many reports in many areas, many small communities along

02:33 Interstate 30 east of Dallas Hunt County is under a severe thunderstorm

02:37 warning, and you can see that there are flash flood warnings here as well into

02:40 the Dallas Metro. So a lot of concerns. And another spot that we want to keep

02:43 an eye on is up into north Texas, far northwest parts of the Texas area here

02:49 near the panhandle. This has been kind of a finicky cell here. It's just

02:53 fighting itself. They're moving into Perryton. There is some window loft

02:57 that's kind of battling this one right now, but it still is holding on in

03:01 northern Ocaltree County. A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect here

03:05 because of hail. Here's a report of hail, and you can see that this has

03:08 been about the size of a quarter in Booker, Texas. They're in northern

03:11 Lipscomb County. So again, there it's a severe storm. It's a lone ranger there

03:16 at this point. Let's take a look at the watch. The I'll show you the watches in

03:19 a moment. Here are the power outages. We have about 37,500 addresses or 57,500

03:26 addresses now between Texas and Arkansas in the dark right now. Most of

03:32 that, at least on the Arkansas side, is tied to the current storms that are

03:35 plunging south soon to reach you in Shreveport. You are under a severe

03:39 thunderstorm watch as well until eight p.m. And again, we only have one severe

03:44 storm up here near Perryton in the second watch, but there will likely be

03:48 a few more storms to get going and hail will be the main concern there into

03:52 areas like the eastern part of the Texas Panhandle from I 27 to the east.

03:56 So overall, this is the stripe here that we're most concerned about. Some of

03:59 these stores are beginning to outrun some of the orange there, but damaging

04:02 wind and hail have been the main concerns, and some flash flooding is

04:06 also an issue. So tonight, more storms for some into Dallas Jackson Little

04:10 Rock will see some more of that, and then we'll have a little break in the

04:13 action during the day tomorrow after some morning storms impacted the same

04:17 area. Daytime weather looks okay, but then more storms fire off into the

04:20 night, and that's gonna be cause for more concern. It's gonna be real hot

04:24 where it's not stormy during the day Tuesday. Some of these numbers, Justin

04:27 pretty steamy 87 in Oklahoma City, but 93 in Dallas 101 in San Antonio. That's

04:32 10 degrees above average.

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