US EditionViolent storms threaten tornadoes and golf ball-sized hail from Illinois to eastern Texas
- On Sunday, a volatile weather system is unleashing severe thunderstorms with the potential for tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds across the central United States, affecting roughly 170 million people from Illinois to eastern Texas and beyond.
- The severe weather is fueled by unseasonably warm air colliding with a powerful cold front, with some regions previously struck by deadly storms earlier this month potentially in harm's way again.
- The Storm Prediction Center has placed more than 25 million people under a level 3 of 5 risk for severe weather, including major cities like Nashville, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, while another 40 million are under a level 2 risk, encompassing areas like Dallas, Chicago, and Cleveland.
- Late Saturday, storms were already producing massive hail near Oklahoma City, with hailstones ranging from about the size of a quarter to a golf ball, and forecasters warn that Sunday's storms could bring strong and long-lived tornadoes rated EF2 or higher, hail larger than golf balls, and wind gusts strong enough to cause widespread damage.
- Approximately 300 tornado reports have been logged since January, nearly double the 164 reports by this time last year, marking this year as having an extraordinary number of tornadoes, with only 2023, 2017 and 2013 recording more tornadoes in the first three months since 2010.
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Storms threaten tornadoes and massive hail from Illinois to East Texas
By Hanna Park and Maria Gilbert, CNN Millions of people are under a tornado watch across the central United States on Sunday, with confirmed tornadoes reported in Michigan and Missouri, as a volatile weather system caused power outages and massive hail. An estimated 170 million people from Illinois to East Texas and beyond could be affected over the next two days as abnormally warm air collides with a powerful cold front. March has brought an ex…
70+ million under threat of severe weather in the South and Eastern U.S.
Tens of millions of people from Texas to Michigan are facing the threat of severe weather, with at least one possible tornado touching down in Mississippi. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson is tracking it all from Tennessee.
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