A potent storm system that has triggered severe weather alerts across the Southeast on Thursday continues to slowly move through the region, where severe weather and life-threatening flooding is expected to continue through Saturday.
The initial round of storms developed across the Southern Plains where several communities reported hail the size of quarters. Flooding was also witnessed outside of Fort Worth, Texas.
The FOX Weather Center expects impacts to expand to at least a dozen states on Friday as the storm system moves east, which includes the already saturated states of Alabama and Georgia.
Multiple rounds of storms are possible throughout the day Friday.
“Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana — all of you are going to have a huge rush of moisture coming in from the Gulf of Mexico,” says FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin. “And the incoming storm from the west is just going to add enough spin in the atmosphere to create an isolated tornado risk.”
Merwin added that while severe storms were in the forecast Thursday, “(Friday) we have more ingredients in check and so we’ll have more widespread severe action today in comparison to (Thursday).”
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