Severe storms shift to the Plains
A day after tornadoes tore through Iowa, problem-causing severe thunderstorms moved farther south, striking parts of Texas, Arkansas and surrounding areas.
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00:00 And well now a new third tornado warning just recently issued in the area near
00:04 Killeen, Texas, but another one off to the northeast in northeast Texas. So as
00:08 we zoom in on the Austin radar site here, getting a little more specific
00:12 and putting our glasses on, we can see what's going on with a couple of these
00:15 areas. Two separate areas of rotation. One is out in advance of what was the
00:21 previous. I'm gonna just loop this to see if there's any leftover continuity
00:25 from the previous. Looks like the previous warning off to the west is
00:28 largely getting gobbled up here by the preceding storm now off to the east. So
00:33 this is a new severe thunderstorm warning until 6 45 Central time moving
00:37 to the east at 50 MPH for a big chunk of Bell County and also near Moody,
00:41 Texas in southern McLennan County. Also other areas around Temple and Troy. So
00:46 when we are looking at this particular feature on the radar, we're looking at
00:50 how the storm is moving and how the motions within the storm are behaving.
00:53 And this is the dominant area of rotation now, barely northeast of
00:57 Colleen. If you're in Colleen, Texas take shelter, but some other greater
01:00 risks are on the map, just barely northeast into Curry Crossing. There
01:03 could be a tornado over your head. We're touching down right now again. The
01:07 green is where we have screaming motion in toward the radar site, and the red
01:10 is where we have movement away. So we have 78 MPH winds coming in 48 MPH
01:15 winds going out. So overall, we're looking at about a 126 MPH contrast
01:20 there. 116 MPH contrast there with that ongoing wind. There's 126 MPH
01:27 wind in opposing directions off to the northeast. A quick glance at this cell.
01:31 I think Shreveport's gonna give us the best set of eyes off from the east,
01:35 looking to the west. And here we also have some rotation. And in this case,
01:39 it's a fairly small zone where you have inbound wind and a lot of outbound
01:42 wind. So still the risk of a tornado here straddling the camp Upshur County
01:45 line south of Pittsburgh in northeast Texas between Pittsburgh and Gilmore.
01:50 We're dealing with an ongoing tornado threat there, too. So those three areas
01:54 are the greater concern and a quick glance at the ongoing watches. We have
01:58 one tornado watch into Texas that's running until eight p.m. But another
02:02 severe thunderstorm watch north and east where we have some ongoing severe
02:05 weather and then also a little bit of western Kentucky and into middle
02:08 Tennessee also facing a severe weather threat.