Gulf Coast to face severe weather threat this weekend

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AccuWeather's Guy Pearson warns of a severe weather threat looming in the Gulf Coast this weekend. Severe thunderstorms could produce flooding, isolated tornadoes and damaging wind gusts at 50-60 mph.

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00:00Good morning and Happy New Year to everybody.

00:03It's, you know, we're right back into the swing of things.

00:06Mother Nature's not always playing with, you know,

00:10spring and severe weather only.

00:12And certainly the graphic here, we do have,

00:14Bernie and I were just talking about this before the segment here,

00:17but there is a spike in January.

00:19And so that's one of the things that, you know,

00:22there are times in January where we have the right ingredients come together,

00:26and depending upon how that plays out through a storm system,

00:29it can certainly lead to a lot of severe weather,

00:31and specifically tornadoes, within a few days in January.

00:35Yeah, let's take a look at the upper air pattern, Guy,

00:38and there it is, that upper low.

00:40And the problem is on Sunday, it intensifies.

00:43And that's the concern we have is that upper lows,

00:46it intensifies during the morning hours.

00:48There's going to be enough warmth and enough, call it instability,

00:53that there's at least some risk for severe weather.

00:59Yep, certainly with that piece of energy ejecting into the southern plains

01:03and then into the Midwest here,

01:05it is going to be bringing that chance of severe weather,

01:08as we have in the graphic here, up across parts of eastern Texas,

01:11into Arkansas and Louisiana and Mississippi,

01:14as it does progress farther eastward.

01:16And, you know, we're going to have that upper-level energy,

01:18we're going to have our low-level moisture back in place,

01:21and the threats for severe weather to bring back up

01:24and cover into this area as well.

01:27Really quickly, any thought of upgrading any of this area to a moderate, Guy?

01:35Not probably at this moment in time.

01:38We're going to keep a close eye on it,

01:40but northeastern Texas, maybe northern Louisiana into Mississippi.

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