Multiple tornadoes reported as severe storms erupt in Texas and Oklahoma

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AccuWeather's Damien Lodes was forecasting live on the afternoon of April 4 as rapidly rotating storms led to multiple tornado warnings in northeast Texas and southern Oklahoma.

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00:00Here's a live video or a video from earlier taken from Clarksville in Texas

00:04and this is the kind of weather we're going to be tracking because pretty much

00:07any storm that forms from east Texas, southeast Oklahoma, pretty much the

00:12entire state of Arkansas, northern Louisiana, any storm that forms in these

00:16highlighted regions they're all going to be spinning like a top. So every single

00:20one of these storms will be capable of producing tornadoes and large hail here

00:24as we head into this evening. So overall here as you look at the the broad view

00:28of the actual lightning it does look like that some of these central storms

00:32the lightning intensity has come down subsided just a little bit but overall

00:37the rotation signature is still there and high enough to confirm some of these

00:41tornadoes. So as we take a freeze frame on the latest one we still have one

00:45tornado warning here in effect for McCurtain County that goes until five

00:48o'clock. Now the overall rotation on that northern storm that has shown signs of

00:52coming down so we'll see if they expire that tornado warning earlier but then as

00:55you look at southeastern Oklahoma we have another tornado warning in effect

00:59until five o'clock here 530 I should say local time which is going to be in

01:03another hour and you can just see how long that tornado warning is that's

01:07because these storms are going to be moving to the northeast moving

01:10relatively fast we're talking storm forward momentum going 50, 60 miles an

01:15hour so what that means these storms are going to be moving very fast but what

01:19that means to you is that if you are in the path of these storms you are not

01:23going to have as much time as you would think to prepare and take shelter as

01:27these storms move in so you definitely need to watch out for that so Idabel

01:30southeastern Oklahoma definitely watching out for some strong to severe

01:34thunderstorms including that tornadic storm and also we have a confirmed

01:37tornado warning here in effect for Bowie Texas there until 445 local time that's

01:42about another 10 minutes but it looks like that they replaced this confirmed

01:46tornado warning with a classic tornado warning that we're going to be watching

01:49out for so looks like the visual confirmation on that particular storm

01:53has lapsed so we'll continue to watch that but we also have this tornado one

01:56storm here for Wood County there in Texas and all these storms once again

02:00they are all spinning very fast and very efficiently so every single one of these

02:05storms will be capable of producing tornadoes

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