Severe storms prompt numerous warnings across Arkansas

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AccuWeather's Leslie Hudson reported live amid an extremely stormy night with multiple tornado warnings in Arkansas on April 2.

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00:00Our live coverage continues now this hour with Leslie Hudson.

00:03She joins us live from Colt, Arkansas.

00:04Leslie, there have been large wedge-shaped tornadoes

00:08in parts of Arkansas.

00:10What's going on in Colt right now?

00:14So we have been chasing those lines of storms, Jeff,

00:17that you guys have been talking about for the last couple

00:20of hours.

00:21There's been about 10 tornado-worn storms in and around

00:25where we are in Colt. So we've been

00:27trying to get ahead of some of them.

00:29You can probably see some of the CG, the lightning behind me.

00:32It's definitely over my shoulder.

00:33It's been, you know, the low-level jets

00:36been impressive all day in this region.

00:39But as you know, this is just day one

00:41of a multi-day severe weather, potentially flash flooding

00:45event.

00:46Folks have been told to get off the roads in this part

00:49of Arkansas to try and stay home if they can be off the roads.

00:53We did shoot some video just within this last hour

00:55in between Brinkley and Colt and in those surrounding areas.

00:59You'll see a wall cloud in one of those vantage points,

01:02again, where we were trying to get ahead

01:04of some of these storms to see what they were going to do.

01:07We know that there's been an active day in terms of hail.

01:11Was checking some of the National Weather Service

01:13reports that there's definitely been a golf ball and larger.

01:16I know we've been talking about that on the network as well.

01:19So the potential now is for this ongoing event

01:22tonight, which, of course, becomes much more dangerous.

01:25Folks tend to become less interactive with their phones,

01:28less interactive with notifications

01:30that they may get.

01:31And so we always try and tell folks

01:32to at least have two ways to get your notifications

01:35through tonight if you're in this zone,

01:37this particularly dangerous situation

01:40that we could be dealing with multi-track, long-lived

01:44tornadoes tonight and into tomorrow.

01:46And then, of course, the second prong to this

01:49is this massive potential for flash flooding.

01:54We were in Little Rock this morning,

01:55spent about half the day there.

01:57Those folks in that area sent the kids home

01:59in that district home early at noon.

02:02All the schools in and around that district were let out.

02:05There was also a push to get folks home and close businesses

02:10again in preparation of this event.

02:11That area saw an EF3 just two years ago,

02:14which leveled many parts of Little Rock.

02:17So they know this scenario well.

02:19They're taking the threat seriously.

02:21I do know from other officials here in this area

02:24that they have put additional flash flooding personnel

02:27in place in the event that they've got a few water

02:29rescues tonight or tomorrow.

02:31They're trying to mitigate that damage or that concern

02:34and get folks in place ahead of time, ahead of these storms.

02:37So likely going to be a long night for a lot of folks,

02:40and we are headed towards the Memphis area

02:42to continue our coverage with you all tomorrow morning early.

02:45And we'll continue to have more over these next couple of days.

02:48Reporting live from Colts, Arkansas,

02:50I'm Leslie Hudson. Back to you.

02:52All right, be safe, Leslie.

02:53Thank you so much for that report there.

02:55A lot of lightning in the Colts, Arkansas area.

02:58Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

02:59Just recently confirmed a tornado moved through that area.

03:02The report was that a tornado was spotted

03:06very close to fire station number one

03:08in the city of Cape Girardeau.

03:09That storm has continued to produce a likely tornado.

03:12Now it's no longer in Cape Girardeau.

03:14In fact, it's crossed the river

03:15moving into Union County of Illinois.

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