Storms bringing threat for severe weather to the Gulf Coast

As multiple storms bring snow and ice to the Northeast this week, the situation along the Gulf Coast will be very different.

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00:00by thursday we're all a lot cooler even in the south texas let's move a little bit further east

00:05and talk about that severe weather threat that we've mentioned a couple times now we're going

00:08to see rounds of rain and thunderstorms throughout the week and the rain and thunderstorms will be

00:14pretty problematic for some flooding rain and strong winds are the main hazards with some of

00:19these thunderstorms that will break out tuesday we mentioned texas to louisiana mississippi and

00:24we're going to have more behind that then even into midweek yeah let's take a look at the severe

00:28weather threat for tuesday and tuesday night kind of lines up with uh where we saw the cold

00:33front and that leading edge here and like you mentioned the main threats are going to be the

00:37flooding and damaging wind gusts but we can't rule out hail or even an isolated tornado or two

00:41so stay weather aware keep the yaki weather app on and wednesday it looks so similar to the

00:46previous map but this is a separate storm system this is the next one the midweek storm bringing

00:51us the widespread thunderstorm threat for more near the gulf coast and here's the area we're

00:55watching for the severe threat wednesday and wednesday night it's a little bit of a larger

00:59area but the risks are the same the flash flooding and the damaging wind gusts are the main threats

01:04but we could see hail we could see an isolated tornado or two which of course we'll watch for

01:08the travel impacts