Another Severe Tornado Will Come to Southern US This Week

Another severe tornado will strike the parts of Southern US again just like in the past two weeks that left residents in a devastating condition to.

The weather phenomenon may not be happening in the same spots, but it will be the third week in a row that there is a chance of severe weather.

Because storm systems frequently follow patterns, severe thunderstorms in the same regions may be more prevalent than ever believed.

According to Bill Bunting, the Storm Prediction Center's chief of forecasting activities, storms have been returning to the same locations recently.

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Although the atmosphere includes a chaotic component, it does periodically get into routines where we may detect this consistency, as per CNN.

Tragically, the potential of severe weather has been present for the previous month, and will very likely be present again in the coming week, in many of the same locations that have already suffered enough severe weather in the last four weeks.

He said that the extreme weather that occurs week after week is linked to the location of the jet stream, which sets the circumstances for it to happen again.

Strong southwesterly breezes in the mid-levels and powerful southeast to southerly winds closer to the surface are typical of these atmospheric circulations.

Bunting noted that this produces a natural setting for wind shear that is suitable for structured thunderstorms and tornadoes.

He also said that the highly moist air streaming northern from the Gulf of Mexico, which has aided the development of storms in recent weeks, will be present again this week.

According to the Weather Prediction Center, precipitation from the Gulf of Mexico will continue to rush north into the southern tier states and merge with a frigid front slowly advancing into the southern Plains (WPC).

Over the next few days, this will result in a growing penetration of showers and thunderstorms from either the southern Plains into the Deep South.

As the storms move away from the East Coast, the hazard reduces by Thursday. While the system is largely delivering storms to the South, much of the Eastern Seaboard may get rain on Thursday.

Rain is expected from Florida to New England, so there may be some travel delays at several major airports on Wednesday and Thursday when this system passes over.

"Straight hodographs signal a predominantly wind-driven hazard for any torrential rains that form," the NWS office in Atlanta noted, "but attention may need to be taken to watch this event as it enters the short term."

Hodographs are graphs that show how the wind changes direction and speed as it rises in altitude.

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Weather insisting for the past week

Several people were hurt, homes and businesses were destroyed, and power lines were felled in Mississippi and Tennessee on Wednesday after severe storms caused damage in Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas overnight before moving to the deep south.

Officials indicated that as of Wednesday night, no deaths had been reported as a result of the storms.

According to The Guardian, which recorded utility outages, over 185,000 people were without power on Thursday morning in the aftermath of the storm across a band of states: Mississippi and Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, and Michigan.

According to weather service forecasts, strong winds in Louisiana overturned semitrailers, pulled the roof off mobile home, brought a tree crashing into a house, and knocked down power lines, but no tornadoes were confirmed.

To avoid cramming youngsters into buildings or buses, schools in Memphis and others around Mississippi shuttered early or turned to online instruction.

In Mississippi, shelters were opened, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency encouraged individuals living in trailers in Louisiana to be prepared to leave after Hurricane Ida.

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