Another severe weather outbreak could wreak havoc tomorrow after at least 32 people were killed when tornadoes ripped through parts of the Midwest and South over the weekend.
Extreme weather may affect some of the same areas that were hit by the deadly tornadoes on Friday.
Severe thunderstorms are likely during the afternoon and evening from parts of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana south to parts of Missouri, Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas, according to The Weather Channel.
There seem to be a couple of passes where there will be a relatively greater threat from bad weather.
One region from central Missouri to central and eastern Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin, and northwestern Illinois.
The tornado flattened parts of Illinois, including Robinson Municipal Airport
There was significant damage in Little Rock, Arkansas. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has already declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard as at least five people have been killed
The other extends from southern Missouri to much of Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma, and far northeastern Texas.
Damaging straight-line winds, large hail and tornadoes are likely to arise. Some tornadoes can be EF2+ intensities.
According to The Weather Channel, nighttime tornadoes are also possible.
The storm system could produce more severe weather as it moves far east on Wednesday, especially in parts of the eastern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, including Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Buffalo.
Strong winds and hurricanes may pose a danger to these areas.
At least some severe storms could develop in parts of the south.
The strong weather system will also produce heavy snowfalls and blizzards across the northern plains and upper Midwest.
There will be a strong and dynamic jet stream from the southwest to the plains, providing strong winds here for thunderstorms that form.
At the surface, moisture would return to the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio as a powerful low pressure system anchored from the Rocky Mountains toward the upper Midwest.
This is the exact same formation that brought dozens of tornadoes to the area on Friday, according to The Weather Channel.
Over the weekend, confirmed or suspected tornadoes in 11 states damaged homes and businesses, snapped trees and devastated neighborhoods Friday night. It can take days to count all the tornadoes from recent days.
Destroyed planes, hangar pieces and other debris at Robinson Municipal Airport, two days after a tornado hit Palestine, Illinois
A pickup truck lies upside down after a tornado hits the area in Adamsville, Tennessee on April 2, 2023.
A family moves furniture from their destroyed home in Adamsville, Tennessee on Saturday, April 1, 2023.
Among the five dead in Indiana are Brett Kincaid, 53, and Wendy Kincaid, 47, of Rossville, Indiana, whose bodies were found at Camp McCormick Creek State Park, where they had been camping, according to Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
Thirteen deaths were reported in Tennessee, as an EF-2 tornado ripped through multiple counties, according to the National Weather Bureau in Nashville.
The dead included at least nine in one county in Tennessee and four in Illinois. Other deaths from the storms that hit Friday night through Saturday were reported in Alabama and Mississippi.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday traveled to Belvedere to visit the Apollo Theater, which has partially collapsed as about 260 people were attending a heavy metal concert. A 50-year-old man was pulled from the rubble and later died.
The governor said that 48 others received treatment in hospitals, including five in critical condition.
WTHR reports that Brett and Wendy Kincaid, who were killed in the camper Friday night when the storm hit the McCormick Creek State Park campground in Owen County, were excited campers.
Their bodies were found Saturday, according to Indiana conservation officials, who said storms devastated the area, specifically the still-enclosed campground.
Governor Pritzker planned to travel later to Crawford County, about 230 miles south of Chicago, where three people were killed and eight injured when a tornado struck the New Hebron area.
Men inspect a vehicle damaged by a tornado in Adamsville, Tennessee, Sunday, April 2, 2023.
Pieces of hangars are seen wrapped around a tree at Robinson Municipal Airport, two days after the tornado hit Palestine, Illinois
Regan Milmayer sits in front of her tornado-damaged home in Adamsville, Tennessee
Tennessee, one of the hardest-hit states since the storms began Friday, initially had seven weather-related deaths. But that rose to 12 after police reported three new deaths Sunday, saying two children and an adult were killed Saturday when a tree fell on a home in Memphis.
Mike Garcia looks at his hurricane-damaged home with a friend in Adamsville, Tennessee on Saturday, April 1, 2023
“We’ve had emergency crews pull people out of their basements because the house collapsed on top of them, but luckily they had that safe space to go to,” Sheriff Bill Rutan said at a news conference.
This tornado was not far from where three people died in Sullivan County, Indiana, about 95 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
Several people were rescued during the night, with up to 12 people reportedly injured.
“I’m really shocked that there isn’t more in terms of humanitarian issues,” said Sullivan Mayor Clint Lamb, adding that recovery “is going to be a very long process.”
The National Weather Service confirmed Sunday that a tornado was responsible for storm damage near Bridgeville, Delaware, where severe weather triggered warnings, damaged several homes and caused road closures.
Delaware State Police said a person was found dead inside a home that was badly damaged by the storm Saturday night.
A car drives by destroyed planes, cut hangars and debris at Robinson Municipal Airport
Previous storms have made their way through the capital of Arkansas, collapsing the roof of a crowded concert venue in Illinois and Amazing people all over the area On Saturday with damage range.
“This means that there is now help from the federal government to support the amazing efforts already underway from the state and local communities,” said Dean Creswell, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in Little Rock, Arkansas, after visiting some of the hardest hit areas.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders had already declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. At least five people have been killed in her state.
Extensive video posted to Twitter shows a woman in Little Rock, Arkansas recording the incoming tornado as a man tries to close a door.
Once they close, the tornado explodes and destroys the building they are in as the phone’s camera continues to rotate.
One wild video posted to Twitter shows a woman in Little Rock, Arkansas recording the incoming tornado as a man tries to close the door
Once they close, the tornado explodes and destroys the building they are in as the phone’s camera continues to roll
People search for salvageable parts near destroyed planes, hangar pieces and other debris while at Robinson Municipal Airport, two days after a tornado struck Palestine, Illinois, United States.
Tennessee, one of the hardest-hit states since the storms began Friday, recorded seven weather-related deaths initially.
But that rose to 12 after police reported three new deaths Sunday, and reported that two children and an adult were killed Saturday when a tree fell on a home in Memphis.
The Tennessee tornado uprooted trees, flattened homes into piles of shingles, and ripped walls off structures still standing.
“The whole house, you could feel it shaking,” said Janice Petrick, whose home’s glass doors and windows blew off as the tornado ripped through Lewis County.
“We all got together.”
Tennessee officials warned that the same weather conditions are expected to return from Friday night into Tuesday.
Storms hit just hours after Chief Joe Biden visited Rolling Fork, Mississippi, where tornadoes last week destroyed parts of the city.
In a statement Sunday, Biden said, “We are working closely with Indiana and other affected states as they assess the damage, and we stand ready to respond to any additional requests for federal assistance.”
