The severe weather threat, including multiple strong tornadoes, will extend well beyond the daylight hours, adding to the danger tremendously. AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno breaks down what to expect.
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00:00We have a severe weather outbreak this weekend and unfortunately a tornado outbreak Saturday
00:07afternoon and Saturday night. It begins with the storm that came into California on Friday.
00:11That's going to round the bend across Texas and then the central Gulf Coast state Saturday
00:16afternoon. We have a lot of warm air and we have a ton of Gulf moisture that will intersect with
00:21that storm as it lifts to the northeast. There's going to be rounds of thunderstorms from Louisiana
00:27all the way up into Tennessee. There's going to be damaging winds and unfortunately I think we're
00:32going to see dozens of tornadoes on the ground and they could be destructive and long-lived
00:37tornadoes anywhere from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and into Tennessee. In addition to the
00:44damaging wind gusts and the tornadoes, unfortunately rounds of rain and thunderstorms can cause
00:50flooding in parts of Tennessee and in Kentucky Saturday afternoon, Saturday night. Everything
00:56shifts east as we move into Sunday and now we start talking about the mid-Atlantic and into
01:01the Carolinas. While the threat for severe weather is not as great or as large as what we're going
01:08to see on Saturday, there is still going to be severe weather in the form of damaging wind gusts,
01:14some heavy rain and there will be a few if not several tornadoes on the ground.