00:00Now, Anna, the South Central U.S. is seeing some tornadoes as part of last week's outbreak.
00:05Okmulgee County, Oklahoma Sheriff's Office says two people were killed in the town of Beggs on Friday.
00:10The tragedy followed another deadly tornado back on Thursday that claimed the lives of mother and daughter in Fairview, Oklahoma.
00:17Unfortunately, we're looking at similar situations this week, especially considering some of these tornadoes were at night,
00:25which is the most dangerous time for severe weather.
00:28We're looking at a repeat, though today severe weather has already begun.
00:33You can see the smattering of severe thunderstorm warnings, flash flood warnings and even tornado warnings that have been issued
00:39over the last couple of hours.
00:40This is just really going to get worse over the next couple of hours as things continue.
00:45We do have severe thunderstorm watches out the western portion of this map until 7 p.m. Central time.
00:50The eastern portion, we're splitting a time zone a little bit.
00:53So until 11 p.m. Eastern, 10 p.m. Central.
00:56The area we at AccuWeather specifically have been highlighting for the last couple of days that we're most concerned about
01:01does stretch a little further north into Tennessee, but very similar overall area.
01:07Take a look at this map, though.
01:08Anybody shaded here, be prepared for severe weather, especially into the overnight hours.
01:13All types of severe weather certainly possible, as we've already started to see, really, most types of severe weather.
01:20Continuing on in future radar, give you an idea of what happens as we go through tomorrow.
01:25So by noon, we start to see some rain and thunderstorms.
01:28However, this is not your focus for severe weather.
01:30That comes later when things really explode and further to the north as well, as Jeff was showing you.
01:36Now, not only do we expect damaging wind gusts, isolated tornadoes, or really more than isolated tornadoes.
01:41We expect to see several on the ground, but we expect large hail, also flash flooding.
01:46And, I mean, you can tell why with the reds, the yellows, the oranges on future radar.
01:49Those downpours, you already had a lot of downpours the last couple of days, and now we're adding more on
01:56top of it.
01:56One thing to note, Wednesday, Dallas, you're out of the some risk area for severe weather.
02:01However, you still see precipitation on the map.
02:03You could still have some flash flooding, especially just considering more downpours on top of what you already will have
02:08had on Tuesday.
02:10Again, just exacerbating the situation.
02:12Continuing through Wednesday, we do it all again, just a little further to the east.
02:16Thursday, things move even farther to the east.
02:19I'll show you our maps, give you an idea of exactly how things progress and who should be prepared, which
02:24day.
02:25So, Tuesday, Jeff shows you the high risk further to the north.
02:27We have a level 3 out of 4 high risk to the south as well.
02:30But anybody on this map, be prepared.
02:33Again, for all types of severe weather, if you think, oh, the tornadoes, they're not going to happen in the
02:37some risk area, it happens all the time.
02:39It happened Friday in Michigan.
02:41That's why we tell you, stay weather aware.
02:42Have multiple ways to receive watches and warnings.
02:45If you're in any shaded area, you want to have that heads up and you want to be taking action.
02:51Wednesday, things shift a little further to the east, not by a lot, but just enough that, again, Dallas is
02:56not included here, down to a level 2 out of 4 moderate risk area.
03:01However, high risk, not completely out of the question.
03:04And, again, doesn't matter which level you're at, be prepared for the severe weather.
03:08This includes major cities like Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, all in on this.
03:12Expect some issues at the airports, too.
03:14Quick look at the flooding.
03:15Like I said, that extends beyond just the severe weather days and stretches all the way up into Michigan as
03:21well.
03:22We already have some river, minor river flooding issues and creeks especially that we've seen.
03:28It's really just going to get worse the next couple days.
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