Severe storm threat continues in the same areas devastated by April 2 tornadoes

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Powerful tornadoes ripped apart homes in places like Lake City, Arkansas, on April 2, but before the community can even clean up, more storms are on the way.

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00:00For the latest we're gonna head live to storm chaser Aaron Brigsby who has been

00:03on the move since yesterday's devastating storms. He joins us live now

00:07from Batesville Mississippi. Aaron some of the same places cleaning up from

00:11yesterday's storms are once again at risk of severe weather tonight. Yeah good

00:17evening guys that's absolutely correct. Unfortunately this area is going to be

00:21far from getting a break. Today overall the tornado potential has been kept

00:25relatively in check thanks to some colder air which has been kind of

00:29sinking to the south so it's been preventing a lot of these storms from

00:32really developing and taking advantage of that environment. However that does

00:36not mean by any means that they are out of danger for today because we have back

00:41to back to back high-risk days of flash flooding and excessive rainfall. So if

00:46you have to go out tonight these storms whether they be tornadic or not start

00:50training over the same areas we start seeing that water really start to rise

00:53and those roadways covered and it can really sneak up on you especially at

00:56night because it can just simply look like wet pavement and I've seen it on

01:00more than one occasion where a car simply doesn't know if the roadway is

01:02covered in floodwater and then they find themselves in a really bad situation and

01:06this is going to be the case over the series of the next several days then

01:09Arkansas is yet again tomorrow going to be under the risk for more strong

01:14tornado potential more so than it was today. Aaron we're showing right now

01:19some of the footage that you captured from Lake City Arkansas of cars tossed

01:23into homes and all kinds of problems. What have you you've seen a lot of

01:29tornadoes out there over the years but what sticks out to you the most out of

01:32this one? Well I think it was one I mean this area can be particularly hard to

01:39visually see the tornadoes because this the moisture content is a lot

01:44higher in the southeast versus what it is in the plains so one thing that stood

01:47out to me was some of those remarkable pictures that came in how high

01:50contrast that tornado was. Now I will say thankfully the damage was extremely

01:56catastrophic and bad but it missed the main part of downtown by literally less

02:01than a half of a mile so the situation could have been much worse but one thing

02:05I will say was fantastic is that a lot of the folks there did seek these

02:09warnings and they actually had piled everybody into the local storm shelter

02:13and that's no doubt what played a factor and the low number of fatalities that

02:18was associated with not only this tornado but the outbreak all across the

02:21boards that was one thing that was very good to see and one thing I want to talk

02:25about too is the immense amount of tree damage you know we see a lot of

02:28tornadoes I've documented a lot of tornado damage and the sheer

02:31amount of deep parts and snap trees was nothing short of incredible and then

02:36right now as it stands they've rated this an EF 3 at 150 mile an hour that is

02:40preliminary at the moment so that could go up as the surveys continue but

02:45there's no doubt about it that this point it was absolutely a high-end

02:48category high-end EF 3 potentially a low-end EF 4 one of many strong

02:52tornadoes that occurred yesterday across Arkansas and Missouri all the way up

02:56into Indiana all right storm tracer Aaron Rigsby thank you so much for that

03:00update we'll be continuing to track and check in with you here coming up

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