Tornado threat moves towards us south after a large storm releases winds and wild fire fans
The threat of the tornado moved east to Mississippi Valley and deep in the south on Saturday, the day after the massive storm system moved all over the country with the winds that damaged buildings, inserted storms from dust that caused deadly accidents and seized more than 100 wild fires in several central countries.
Multiple tornadoes have been reported in Missouri, on Friday, only one of the extreme times that have been predicted to influence the home area on more than 100 million people. The winds that blew up to 130 km/h are foreseen from the Canadian border to Texas, threatening to be blocked in cooler northern areas and the risk of fires in warmer, dry areas in the south.
Three people were killed on Friday in a car accident during a dust storm in Amarillo County in Texas Panhandle, according to SGT. Cindy Barkley of the State Department of Public Security. One crowd included about 38 cars.
“That’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen,” Barkley said, calling visibility almost zero nightmare. “We couldn’t say everyone together until the dust is calmed down.”
Evacuation has been ordered in some communities in Oklahoma, as more than 130 fires have been reported throughout the country. State patrol said the winds were so powerful that they broke several tractor trailers.
“This is terrible here,” said Charles Daniel, a truck driver who dragged a 14.6 -meter trailer along Interstate 40 in Western Oklahoma. “There are a lot of sand and dirt in the air. I don’t push it over 55 mph. I’m afraid it will blow if I do it.”
The forecasts said that a strong threat to the storm will continue in the weekend with a great chance for tornadoes and harmful winds on Saturday in Mississippi and Alabami. Ordinary rain could bring a flood of flashes to some parts of the eastern coast on Sunday.
Experts say it is not unusual to see such weather in March.
“What is unique in this is its great size and intensity,” said Bill Bunting of the National Meteorological Service Center in Norman, Okla.
Tornado, big hail
The Meteorological Service announced that at least five tornadoes were reported in Missouri, including one in the Saint Louis area. Several buildings were damaged in the Storm, including the Rolla Market Center, Mo., where a tornado was reported on Friday afternoon.
The storm prediction center said that the storms could quickly be born twister and beat as big as a baseball, but the biggest threat would come from real winds nearby or exceeded the hurricane forces, with a rush of 160 km/h.
The “potentially violent” Tornado was expected on Saturday in parts of the central coast of the bay and deeply south in the Tennessee Valley, according to the National Meteorological Service.
The storm prediction center said that parts of Mississippi, including Jackson and Hattiesburg and the Alabama area, including Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, would at great risk. Heavy storms and tornadoes were also possible in Eastern Louisiana, Western Georgia, Central Tennessee and Western Florida Panhandle.
Fires in the middle of dry, toll conditions
Fire in the southern plains threatened to spread quickly in the middle of warm, dry weather and strong winds, and evacuations were ordered on Friday by some communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico.
The flames in Roberts County in Texas, northeast of Amarill, quickly blew up from less than two square kilometers to an estimated 85 square kilometers, said Texas A&M University Forest Service at X. Crews stopped its progress until Friday night.
About 90 kilometers in the south, another fire rose to about 10 square kilometers before the progression was stopped in the afternoon.
The Oklahoma Emergency Management Department has activated its emergency center for several fast -moving fires that have encouraged the evacuation of the City of Leedey in the western part of the country and in the rural area east of Norman.
Firefighters were proposed in certain areas, which helps the authorities early in the jump on the flames, said Andy James, head for managing the Oklahoma Fire Department. Firefighters were also deployed in some parts of Oklahoma and Texas, but they were generally unable to fly because of small visibility from smoke and dust, he added.
On Friday night, the National Meteorological Service said the “complex of extremely dangerous fires” was located northeast of Oklahoma City, near Stillwater, and invited some people in the city of about 50,000 for evacuation. Officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders through social media that included homes, hotels and Walmart.
Officials invited people in some areas of Camden County in the central Missouri to evacuate themselves for fires, and the state patrol for highways warned through social media to approach homes and companies.
About 190 kilometers of interstate 70 in Western Kansas was temporarily closed to blow dust and limited visibility.
High winds also knocked on more than 216,000 homes and companies in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri, according to the Table.us website.
Blizzard warnings in northern plains
The US National Meteorological Service issued Blizzard warnings for parts of the distant West Minnesota and the distant eastern southern Dakota starting from the beginning of Saturday. Snow accumulation of 7.6 to 15.2 centimeters were expected, with up to 30 centimeters possible.
The winds that thick up to 97 km/h were expected to cause white conditions.
