00:00As we take you back into the mid-Atlantic states, I wanted to show you a couple of severe warnings.
00:04Now, there is no lightning with either of these.
00:07These are basically gusty squalls of rain, but severe thunderstorm warnings are being issued because of the wind potential.
00:13Again, this is a unique case where you have just very strong wind shear, limited cape, we call it,
00:20and the weather term here, convective, available, potential energy.
00:24The driver, the fuel for thunderstorms that gets these updrafts going.
00:27There's not a deep updraft, but even if we just get an updraft that only goes 8,000 or 10
00:32,000 feet into the sky,
00:33maybe even less than that, you're going to be able to tap into some very strong winds about a mile
00:38up over your heads.
00:39And some of these warnings being issued for large areas, 110 miles from north to south here,
00:43from the area near Greensboro, North Carolina, all the way down to southern Scotland County, North Carolina.
00:48Guilford, Alamance County, Chatham, Randolph, Montgomery County, Moore, Hoke County, and Richmond,
00:54and down into Scotland County, North Carolina.
00:56And then up to the north, similar story up into the area around the western part of Virginia, the Blue
01:01Ridge here.
01:01We're looking just east of Roanoke, so we're looking at Bedford County, down into Franklin County,
01:05western Pennsylvania County, Henry County, and Martinsville, the city of Martinsville, Virginia,
01:10northeastern parts of Patrick County.
01:11Very strong winds.
01:12This is with the true cold front.
01:14So that's your front producing the final push of strong wind energy that could lead to more outages and more
01:22trees down as well.
01:23And then, again, the squall line kind of pushing a little farther east down into central North Carolina.
01:27So a lot of big concerns.
01:28With all this said, down to the south, the strongest traditional thunderstorms are just beyond, barely beyond Cape Lookout and
01:36Cape Hatteras,
01:37and then down through central Florida.
01:38Interstate 4, some strong storms, not quite severe at the moment, but they're strong,
01:43flaring up over Kissimmee and into the area near the Tampa Fairgrounds, the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds there east of Tampa.
01:49And we're going to be watching out for more trouble here in the hours to come regarding the big transition
01:54over to snow.
01:55So a quick look at the tornado watches.
01:57Still, tornado watch in effect for Philadelphia.
01:59The door's not closed for something briefly spinning up eastern North Carolina.
02:03The watches might be getting a little more fragmented.
02:05But the winds are strong, and on the west side of the front, those winds are bringing big change,
02:11including in a NASCAR hotspot.
02:14Take a look.
02:15Bristol, Tennessee, not a race going on today, thankfully, because this is not prime race weather.
02:21Are you there?
02:21A beautiful country even if you do kiffing with this weather.
02:21when I am � masses, so I remember when you're able to get trann schematic
02:21because there're not only one Friend, but it makes a difference.
02:21So I think there's a little bit more sensitive nut.
02:21Then let me see the weather are better than a little bit.
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