The strong winds are causing forest fires in Texas on Friday, since a low pressure system that moves to the east and threatens to land powerful tornadoes in the plains and beyond.
It is estimated that 138 million people run the risk of severe storms in the Middle section of the Nation throughout the weekend. Strong night tornadoes in EF2 on the tornado force scale, defined by sustained winds from 113 to 157 mph, are possible from southern Iowa to Jackson, Mississippi.
The worst of the system is also threatening harmful winds and Friday to Saturday.
Friday’s storm is running out in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and beyond, and is expected to produce more forceful winds for at least Saturday morning.
The largest cities at risk of tornadoes include St. Louis and Memphis, they said. Generalized bursts of 60 to 100 mph and large hail are forecast.
Electricity interruptions are affecting 96,000 public services clients in Texas, 73,000 in Oklahoma, 23,000 in Kansas and 21,000 in Missouri on Friday night, according to the Powerouting Public Services tracker.
Strong winds and forest fires in Texas
The southern end of the front is stirring gusts as strong as 62 mph in northern Texas parts, according to data from the National Meteorological Service.
The winds in Texas and Oklahoma on Friday were the source of multiple vehicle accidents, according to social networks images and the National Meteorological Service office in Norman, Oklahoma.
Potter County Fire Rescue reported that four roads were restricted or closed after separate incidents in which the big rigas had “turned.” Texas Panhandle County includes the northern half of yellow.
“Visibility is poor at best and zero in places,” the agency said on social networks. “If you don’t have to be outside, please stay where you are.”
The largest of the six active forest fires of the State, the wind mill fire in Roberts County, grew from 500 to 9,000 acres in the period of a few hours, according to the Texas A&M forest service. The fire was 0% contained Friday afternoon.
The restfire of the rest area in the Gray march county through 1,000 acres so far, with a reported containment, according to the service.
The Texas A&M forest service said Thursday that the conditions can be correct for an outbreak of forest fires of the southern Great Plains, a hazardous climatic formula based in part in low humidity and racial wind, although such sprouts were not officially declared on Friday afternoon.
Governor Greg Abbott said that more than 750 emergency responders were ready as it ordered the Texas Emergency Management Division to activate and prepare emergency response resources, according to a statement.
Tornado risk in Missouri, states of the Gulf Coast, Tennessee Valley
Meanwhile, the governor of Missouri, Mike Kehoe, declared an emergency state on Friday when the state prepared for the unstable air of the front during the night, including thunderstorms and possible tornadoes.
In a statement, he warned the Missurians that the front will move quickly and intensify. They must plan to stay out of the roads, stay inside and find out where they can go if a tornado attacks.
“I urge all Missourians to stay alert, monitor weather forecasts and follow official warnings,” he said.
The statement will allow state resources to reach local governments faster, Kehoe’s office said. He also said he is activating the Missouri emergency operations center on Friday afternoon.
A tornado outbreak in the states of the central coast of the Gulf in the Tennessee Valley was probably Saturday night. Significant tornades were possible in eastern Louisiana, in Mississippi and Alabama, they said.
Jackson, Mississippi and Birmingham, Alabama, also had a high risk of tornadoes.
Meteorological system to change east
The low pressure system is affecting the southern and north of the Middle Section of the Nation, since it pushes east, promising agitation east of the United States until the end of the weekend.
As she moves to the east coast on Sunday, the threat of the tornado will move to Virginia and Carolinas.
On the north side of the front, including the upper west and the northern plains, snowstorm conditions were forecast for the weekend, with 8 inches of snow possible in some regions.
It was expected that the new week would bring even more winter storm actions when at least two more low pressure systems march east, said the prediction center of the meteorological of the National Meteorological Service.
The first of the two would probably form a solid and anti -horo winter storm, a process that the meteorological service calls cyclogenesis, he said. It will probably bring snow to the interior, including the west medium and the great lakes, with a second storm that probably bring a new wave of snow, rain and thunderstorms to a section of the nation from the rocky mountains to the west medium superior in the middle of the middle of the week.
The atmosphere of the wobstone is shaking the daily routines of millions, since the calendar is looking forward to the first astronomical day of spring on Thursday.
Electric storms and tornadoes are a product of a cold and warm air collision, so the tumult arrives in time. Spring will move on Monday and possibly on Tuesday at the center and east of the United States, since warmer days are expected, even if only briefly, said federal forecasts. It is forecast that the winter storms of the week would fight Tuesday and possibly Thursday in the same regions, they said.
