The National Weather Service says it’s confirmed that a second, weaker tornado touched down briefly in northwest Omaha.
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As night fell, small twisters accompanied a line of thunderstorms as it rolled into Oklahoma City.
Another wave of storms is expected to sweep Grayson County on Friday afternoon with a possibility of some storms turning severe, the National Weather Service said Thursday afternoon. No injuries were immediately reported.
Next door, a family cleaned up several large trees that were toppled by the storm; with wind so strong, no one heard the trees go down. The weather service office in Paducah, Kentucky, is sending a damage survey team to the area on Wednesday.FOX13’s Severe Weather Center 13 Team will be monitoring the atmospheric conditions, tracking all new cells and developments, and analyzing any risk to the FOX13 community.
Klockow said she would like to know how people handled information they received before and during the storms’ development – using actual data and not just anecdotes from people tweeting about what was perceived as a flawed forecast.
The Storm Prediction Center had said last week there was a good chance the central US would see huge hail, high winds and strong tornadoes on Tuesday.
“It’s not like a Joplin tornado where you see trees down to the east, to the north, to the west and south, over a pattern, instead, its very subtle in this case which some of the material flew one way and other material flew the other and then piecing it together to determine most likely a tornado likely occurred”. Half-inch size hail also was reported in Franklin County in eastern Missouri.
Forecasters in Indianapolis say another possible tornado damaged a barn Tuesday evening, near the town of Worthington.
Still, the hail and high winds were frightening enough.
Severe weather forecast has been reported to affect the large portion of central US.
“The slow-moving nature of the storm system will also bring an elevated risk of flash flooding”, according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Edward Vallee.
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More severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and heavy rain are expected this weekend. The nastiest weather was predicted for an area from Houston north into part of Iowa.
