Strong storms spawn tornadoes in the Deep South


Strong storms spawned multiple tornadoes in Oklahoma Wednesday and dumped heavy rain on several states across the South.

The National Weather Service reported multiple tornados touching down northeast of Tulsa, inlcuding outside the airport.

EMSA said on Twitter Wednesday evening that medics have transported nine patients with weather related injuries.

Most of those patients were transported with serious injuries. One patient is in critical condition, according to a news release from EMSA.

Meteorologist Amy Jankowski said the Weather Service received several reports of lofted debris, trees down and some structural damage.

The City of Tulsa said in a statement that several roads were closed and police and fire crews were canvassing the city. The Streets and Water Departments are assisting with road barricades and debris removal.

Nearly 9 million people in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas are in an enhanced area of risk through Friday, putting them in the bull's-eye for some of the strongest storms, the national Storm Prediction Center reported. The area of highest risk includes the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

In Louisiana, the National Weather service has already issued a flash-flood watch for northern parts of the state until 7 p.m. Thursday. Forecasters say multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms will produce 2 to 4 inches of rain, and perhaps 6 inches in some parts of the state.

"Heavy rain from waves of storms could renew flooding over north Louisiana," said Cynthia Palmer, a forecaster at the weather service's office in Shreveport, Louisiana.

The ground remains saturated in that part of the state, which saw record flooding earlier this month, Palmer said.

"We will see the heaviest rain in the Monroe area of northeast Louisiana starting late this afternoon and evening and another wave on Thursday," Palmer said Wednesday morning. "This is the area that could see up to 6 inches."

In northern Mississippi, forecasters said thunderstorms would bring rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches. A flash-flood watch was in effect through Thursday evening.

As the system moves east, strong storms were expected to develop early Thursday over Alabama, where forecasters say the main threats will be tornadoes, winds of up to 70 mph, quarter-sized hail and heavy rains.

In Georgia, forecasters said more than 4 inches of rain could fall in western parts of the state.

Three tornadoes touched down in western Kentucky's Christian County over the weekend when a severe storm passed through the area, the National Weather Service said. The Kentucky New Era cited the National Weather Service in Paducah as reporting an EF-2 tornado in northern Christian County on Sunday evening and two EF-0 tornados in other areas.

The weather service findings released Tuesday said most of the damage came from the EF-2 tornado. The twister destroyed 16 barns and damaged 10 others as well as two homes.

No injuries were reported from the storm.

Source: Fox

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