A tornado hit the Atlanta area Monday morning (May 3), with severe weather threatening more than 100 million people from the Southern Plains to the Mid-Atlantic multistate region.
The National Weather Service in Atlanta said a tornado warning was issued around 10:30 a.m. Monday and lasted until 11:15 a.m. EDT, threatening about 450,000 people in its potential path, CNN reported. The National Weather Service said there were no reports of damage.
The storm, which prompted the weather service to issue the warning, was moving toward the eastern metropolitan area and had weakened. A severe thunderstorm warning covers parts of central DeKalb and parts of Gwinnett County, including Lawrenceville, Lilburn and Stone Mountain.
Overall, the tornado watch covers parts of Georgia and Alabama, including Atlanta, Macon and Montgomery, and is in effect until 4 p.m. EST. More thunderstorms in this watch area could produce some tornadoes. Some of these storms could also bring up to 1 inch of hail and damaging winds of up to 70 miles per hour.
According to the Storm Prediction Center, the risk of experiencing severe weather is greatest in areas from Oklahoma to Indiana through Monday night. This includes Louisville (Louisville), Evansville, Indiana (Evansville) and Fort Smith, Arkansas (Fort Smith), Fayetteville (Fayetteville) and Jonesboro (Jonesboro).
This area is most likely to see tornadoes and damaging winds, but large hail is also a threat, especially in northern Texas and eastern Oklahoma.
Showers and storms falling Monday morning will withdraw from the Ohio River Valley by midday, while the southern plains remain dry for much of the day.
By late afternoon, fast-moving thunderstorms will begin to form and will continue into the evening. Some of these storms are predicted to be “supercell storms” (also translated as “super monolithic storms”) that rotate and can produce tornadoes. This tornado threat will last until Monday night.
The Storm Prediction Center said, “The risk of tornadoes could continue into the night as the storm moves from Oklahoma into parts of Arkansas/southern Missouri and approaches the Mississippi River.”
Storms could also become severe in the Dallas and Chicago areas, but are most likely to occur between the two cities.
Multiple rounds of storms could occur overnight, so some locations could be hit by more than one storm, and possibly more than one severe storm.
These storms may not reach the western Ohio Valley until early Tuesday morning and could affect cities including Nashville (Nashville), Indianapolis (Indianapolis), St. Louis (St. Louis) and Louisville (Louisville).
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