Center Of The Country Threatened Again
For the third straight day, the center of the United States is under threat of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. (We just got hit again with a very strong storm.) It looks to be another rough night coming up.
(State College, PA) - A slow-moving potent storm will threaten the Plains with severe thunderstorms and potentially destructive and deadly tornadoes for the third-straight day Sunday. Meanwhile, winds howling along the mid-Atlantic and Southeast coast will be the first signs of a storm taking shape offshore.
The Plains are amidst a prolonged severe weather event that has produced deadly and destructive tornadoes. A storm, whose eastward progress has been blocked, has been the culprit for the severe thunderstorms and tornadoes that have slammed the country's midsection since Friday afternoon and will continue to do so today.
According to the Midwest Regional News story, the slow-paced storm will once again deliver severe thunderstorms from eastern South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota to western Texas, with Dallas on the eastern fringe, through tonight. Flooding rain and stronger thunderstorms currently over the region will be followed by more intense thunderstorms starting this afternoon.
I had to go to the store a short while ago and we have some severe erosion damage in various areas around where I live. This hit at a particularly bad time, just after a lot of fields had been plowed but before anything sprouted. There's a lot of bare soil to carry away. It did and more hard rain is hitting right now. The creek that runs through our town is almost out of its banks already. Time to start monitoring the local channels for warnings, I'm afraid.
Observations | Gaius Sunday, 6 May , 2007
By rightwingprof, Sunday, 6 May , 2007 @ 2:16 pm
Wait. You’re in State College? Where was the storm?
By Gaius, Sunday, 6 May , 2007 @ 2:41 pm
No, I’m in the midwest. The story was datelined out of State College. Sorry for the confusion.
By Hurricane Shirley, Sunday, 6 May , 2007 @ 8:58 pm
Hang on tight, Gaius! Best of luck to you and your family.
We had record-breaking heat today here in San Francisco. Go figure, that’s nature.
By rightwingprof, Monday, 7 May , 2007 @ 9:08 am
I’m in State College, moved here from the midwest (Indiana). We’ve lived here for almost two years, and we’ve had only one thunderstorm. It storms in the valleys, you can stand outside and see the lightning coming down on the other side of the mountain but it never crosses.