00:00Guy, you've been tracking a lot of this this morning.
00:03These are the same ones that we're building up last night.
00:05How have they continued as they've pushed east?
00:10Yeah, so they've been, you know, they've got pretty strong overnight.
00:15Had all kinds of different wind damage reports, the occasional tornadic report as well.
00:21But as they've moved through and progressed east here this morning,
00:26they had maintained themselves for the most part.
00:28But in looking at the radar here lately, it seems like we're finally getting to that trend of weakening,
00:36especially for the northern part here.
00:38So, but the trend itself, you know, we've had all that heat and moisture in place.
00:43And so it's really just been able to use all that energy up through the overnight hours.
00:48It's things that's pushed east.
00:49You know, basically from Fort Smith, Arkansas, north through Springfield, Missouri,
00:54we're still looking at heavy rain.
00:56So especially in through the hills and Ozarks in through there,
01:00keep an eye out for low-lying spots and things like that.
01:04You know, and in the Fort Smith area,
01:07we do still have that storm that we were concerned about earlier that,
01:11you know, showed quite a bit of rotation.
01:12And it's actually now starting to sort of spread out and not be as tight with that rotation.
01:20So one thing with that is maybe one last gust of, you know, damaging winds with this particular area.
01:27It is, you know, currently there is a tornado warning out.
01:31It's still rotating a little bit, but the last two or three radar frames here,
01:35you can really sort of see it's tried to start to weaken and everything.
01:40But, you know, it's one of those things that the trend is, you know, starting to decrease here.
01:45And we're starting to see that decrease in intensity back across the rest of the line
01:50as it extends back through southeastern Oklahoma and southern Oklahoma.
01:55Yeah, I was getting an idea here of some of those radar frames.
01:59Like you said, it really did have that signature before of a classic tornado with kind of that S shape.
02:05And now it has worked its way off towards east.
02:07One thing I want you to cover on that I think a lot of people were talking about yesterday
02:12was some of the visuals, the videos that we have coming in.
02:16And I know we have some from meteorologist Tony Laubach.
02:18You can see this storm across Texas.
02:21Tell us what this looks like to you and how you break this down when you see a storm like this.
02:28Yeah, I mean, that's one of the, I guess,
02:30the beauties of being able to see storms across the plains
02:35and especially the high plains like this is the cloud base is actually pretty high.
02:40So it actually gives us a really great visual to be able to see what's going on.
02:44And so what we're seeing here, you know, the lowering of the clouds,
02:48you have the white part hanging about halfway down through the frame there.
02:52And then you have the tornado on the ground itself, you know,
02:56actually bringing up the dirt and the dust,
02:58giving that brown appearance of the tornado at the bottom.
03:00But from a meteorological standpoint,
03:03it's just really great to see the entire storm structure
03:05and a whole visualization of, you know, all the pieces
03:09and how the wind, the loft has to rotate in there
03:12and really for it to be able to actually form a tornado to the ground.
03:17So, you know, it's really one of those, you know,
03:20these particular types of storms were all sort of individual storms
03:23and it wasn't along the line like we have this morning.
03:26And so it's really a great visual to be able to see, you know,
03:31some of the work that, you know, Mother Nature unfortunately does
03:34with the tornado storm structure itself.
03:38Great for scientists to study and hopefully it can avoid the people
03:42and places there that are most important.
03:45AccuWeather, severe weather expert Guy Pearson,
03:47thank you again for joining us this morning on AccuWeather Early.
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