Severe storms stretch from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley

Stormy weather shifted east on Sept. 24, leading to widespread risks for a large swath of the eastern U.S.

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00:00We're going to be watching up for a heavier rainfall continuing here as we head throughout

00:03the next couple of hours and as we head into this evening. But first, let's go and start you off

00:06with a look here. Broadview on radar. We have multiple showers, multiple storms, and as I put

00:11the lightning on, you can see multiple areas of rumbles of thunder as well. Let's go ahead and

00:15first talk about the severe thunderstorm, severe worn storm here across parts of Virginia. So this

00:21is going to be this area. It's going to be well to the south of Richmond. You can see right there,

00:25zooming in a little bit closer so we can get some more town names on here for you. So overall,

00:29here's we freeze frame the radar. This is going to be primarily for the county of Londonburg

00:33there in Virginia. So that's a pretty good hail core right there. So this storm does look like

00:37it is going to be producing some small hail, about nickel size hail, possibly even quarter

00:42size hail as we go forward. You can see the storm is starting to button up a little bit right

00:46now, which means that the overall intensity looks like it's about to peak in its overall

00:50maturity. So I wouldn't be surprised if the storm can maintain this level that we don't

00:56see an additional severe thunderstorm warning added onto the storm as we go forward in time.

01:02So overall, most of the strong storms we are tracking continue here for parts of Missouri,

01:06Illinois, Indiana, parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. We have a line of pretty good thunderstorms

01:11out there. Heavy rainfall continuing from Arkansas and the parts of Mississippi. We'll see some flooding

01:15potential out here. But I also want to point out that these areas that I have highlighted from

01:20Alabama through East Texas, this is where we're primarily going to be watching out for the highest

01:24potential of severe weather, especially these little pockets here pushing from Mississippi

01:28into Alabama. This is where we're mainly going to be watching for that elevator risk of severe

01:33weather. Here's an update, a look at our AccuWeb exclusive storm zone. And as we head into

01:36tonight, you can see this storm zone stretches from pretty much the Gulf coast into the Ohio

01:41Valley. Cincinnati will be watching out for some heavy rainfall moving in here as we head

01:45into tonight. So overall, Anna, we've seen some strong to severe thunderstorms ongoing across

01:49this region, but we're not done yet just yet. We're still going to be watching out for a risk of

01:53even some flooding rainfall heading into tonight. Yeah, and then even tomorrow, our area of concern

01:58for severe weather just shifts to the east a bit.