00:00You know, John, before we get into all of the ingredients, let's talk about how rare of an event this
00:08is going to be.
00:10Along the Mid-Atlantic, a high risk is not something that you see often.
00:14No, it's unusual. We reserve that for only a handful of days in any part of the country every year
00:21when we want to communicate an elevated, especially elevated risk for widespread severe weather.
00:28And we're, as you mentioned, most concerned about the destructive wind potential,
00:31but there will be some tornadoes to do, and it's today as well, and it's poorly timed with the evening
00:36commute.
00:37All right, John, water vapor loop looking a little scary here this morning.
00:42A couple of things. By the way, that piece of energy, we're tracking it.
00:45You can see it across northern Louisiana and Mississippi.
00:48Underneath that, we had snowflakes in southwestern parts of Mississippi, including Jackson, Mississippi.
00:55And it's that energy, John, that's going to be translating to the east and to the north.
01:01One of our favorite tools is the low-level jet. We're going to show that to you.
01:05That's the winds at 5,000 feet. And remember, when we talk about severe weather, you need energy.
01:10How do you measure energy in the atmosphere wind?
01:13John, your impressions of this low-level jet across the Mid-Atlantic as we go through the afternoon?
01:19There's a lot of wind energy here, a lot of energy in the atmosphere today,
01:23and that's going to present lots of upward motion.
01:25That produces the thunderstorms and also has the potential, with so much wind energy in places at 5,000 feet
01:34above the ground,
01:35to mix down some of these incredible winds.
01:39The wind will be over 100 miles per hour at 5,000 feet across parts of southern New England later
01:44tonight.
01:44It doesn't mean that's going to mix down to the surface, but that's why we're concerned about wind gusts of
01:4965 miles per hour,
01:50or even higher in some locations.
01:51A very volatile setup here, a classic spring setup across the east today.
01:58All right, let's, current radar right now, let's play it through, John.
02:02You can watch that area in eastern North Carolina, and then here comes the thunderstorms late afternoon,
02:07Washington, D.C., Richmond, all the way down in the eastern North Carolina.
02:11Yes, and you don't, you want to have a plan today for dealing with the severe weather.
02:15You do not want to be on the roads with this level of severe thunderstorm and tornado risk in these
02:20areas,
02:21so use the AccuWeather app to help you plan most effectively.
02:25Soaking rain in New York City and Boston.
02:28We have the severe weather threat off to the south and east.
02:31There is the moderate risk from central New York State all the way into north Florida.
02:35And, John, we're going to end with this.
02:36Regardless of the severe weather, these winds are going to cause major problems as we go through today.
02:44They will.
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