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Severe storms continue across the Plains and Midwest where large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes are possible.
On May 7, 2024, severe storms raced across the Midwest. The storms spawned several damaging tornadoes in southern Michigan, including one that hit the town of Portage.
On May 6, 2024, a high risk of severe storms was issued for parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. During this high risk, a powerful, damaging tornado ripped through the towns of Bartlesville and Barnsdall in Oklahoma.
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Description:
It was an active night for many folks across the southeastern US as multiple rounds of thunderstorms moved through the area.
Phenomena: Lightning Thunderstorms
Satellite: GOES-16
Product: GeoColor GLM Group Energy Density Infrared (band 13)
Instrument: ABI GLM
Thunderstorms ignite across the Southern US yet again this afternoon. Satellites monitor storm activity as the severe weather threat continues through tonight, from Texas all the way to the Atlantic coast.
Phenomena: Thunderstorms
Product: Infrared (band 13) Visible (band 2)
Instrument: ABI
Product: GLM Group Energy Density Visible (band 2)
Thunderstorms relentlessly hitting parts of the Midwest and South.
Product: GeoColor GLM Group Energy Density
Several ongoing severe thunderstorms have produced tornadoes across the state of Tennessee, including a large and dangerous tornado earlier this evening that tracked through Central Tennessee, near the city of Columbia. Tornado watches are still in effect across several Southern US states for the next few hours.
Phenomena: Thunderstorms Above Anvil Cirrus Plumes Tornadoes
Product: Visible (band 2)
Numerous lightning strikes fill the skies above several Midwest and Mid-South states as severe weather continues to threaten the region this afternoon.
All severe storms hazards ranging from tornadoes, to large hail, to damaging wind gusts have been observed and will still be probable from the Ozarks to the Carolinas through tonight.
Product: GeoColor GLM Group Energy Density Visible (band 2)
The sun rises on a supercell thunderstorm traveling over Missouri. All severe storm hazards are possible today through the mid Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Valleys.
Phenomena: Thunderstorms Overshooting Tops
Product: GLM Group Energy Density Infrared (band 13) Visible (band 2)
Severe storms racing across the Midwest, spawning several damaging tornadoes in southern Michigan.
Phenomena: Lightning Thunderstorms Hail Tornadoes Wind
Another round of severe weather has kicked off today as storms proliferate over the Midwest US. All storm hazards, including a few tornadoes, large hail, and strong winds are possible through the evening hours.
This imagery taken from polar-orbiting satellites shows the storms on Monday afternoon, just after they first began firing-up across the Plains, and early Tuesday morning moving into the Midwest.
Satellite: NOAA-20 NOAA-21 S-NPP
Product: Day/Night Band Infrared (band I5)
Instrument: VIIRS
A supercell in northeast Oklahoma produced a large and dangerous tornado that moved towards the towns of Barnsdall and Bartlesville. Storms continue to flare up across the Great Plains as the severe threat will last through the overnight hours.
Phenomena: Thunderstorms Tornadoes
Product: GeoColor Infrared (band 13)
Multiple tornadic storms erupt in Oklahoma.
Phenomena: Lightning Thunderstorms Tornadoes
Strong and severe thunderstorms proliferate across the central and southern plains.
A line of storms have erupted along the frontal boundary in the central and southern plains, with some them already becoming severe. All severe storm hazards, including strong tornadoes, are forecasted for this region through the nighttime hours.
Severe thunderstorms begin to fire up across the Great Plains.
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