Widespread Weekend Severe Weather Impacted the South
A two-day severe weather event impacted the southern United States on Friday and Saturday with multiple confirmed tornadoes, large hail, damaging wind gusts and torrential rain leading to flash flooding. Thankfully, there have been no widespread injuries or damage from these storms. We want to highlight the strongest of the storms from the past few days.
FRIDAY:
On Friday multiple tornadoes tore through the Red River Valley, and our Field Correspondent Eric Fox captured these storms on camera.
❗️INCREDIBLE VIDEO❗️ Our field correspondent @erikfox2000 caught this large #tornado on the ground near Vernon, #Texas Friday afternoon! You can see the tornado throwing debris into the air! #TXwx #TornadoWarning pic.twitter.com/RK8YsPt5k6
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 24, 2021
Sad 😢 Tornadoes tore through Vernon, #Texas causing damage on Friday. Severe weather shifts to the Southeast today. Check out https://t.co/4HvPwr88Cj for more details! #TXwx #TornadoDamge #TornadoWarning pic.twitter.com/tLwVouQjkB
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 24, 2021
In addition to the tornadoes, there were multiple large hail reports across Texas along with heavy rain that lead to flash flooding.
Look at the estimated rainfall over the past few days around the south!
SATURDAY:
Severe weather shifted east on Saturday, impacting the deep south with once again: large hail, damaging winds, tornado warnings and flash flooding. In some locations, over 7″ of rain fell in a matter of hours!
Heavy rains continue to hammer the southeast this Saturday. Check out this soaking shot from the Peach State as April showers saturate everything in their path. #GAwx pic.twitter.com/XQjq7hIsjL
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 24, 2021
We saw widespread strong winds within severe thunderstorms. Gusts were measured at over 70 mph in parts of Louisiana. Damage has been reported in some of the strong storms, with trees and power lines knocked down into Alabama and Georgia.
Goodness! 😳Thunderstorms dropped near baseball ⚾️size #hail along the Florida – Georgia state line in Thomasville, #Georgia! #FLwx #GAwx #HailStorm
Video Credit: @Greg_Tish pic.twitter.com/wlIMHy3wYc
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 24, 2021
Baseball sized hail was reported in Georgia on Saturday, especially right along the Georgia/Florida line as severe storms rolled through Saturday afternoon!
The rest of the weekend is looking relatively quiet, before the next round of severe weather for the middle of next work week. We will have the latest on WeatherNation.