Intense storms led to tornado and flash flood warnings up and down the central U.S. on the night of April 2, as storm chaser Aaron Jayjack explains from Arkansas.
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00:00Our coverage continues with storm chaser Aaron Jajak joining us live now from Clarkdale, Arkansas.
00:06Aaron, this has been a nasty setup in northeast Arkansas.
00:10What have you been experiencing and what are you dealing with right now?
00:16Yeah, we just had a supercell cross the interstate here.
00:20I-55 runs right through here, through Clarkdale, out of Memphis.
00:23We're north of Memphis. That supercell crossed the interstate.
00:27We had a huge, massive wall cloud. Fortunately, there was no tornado.
00:30Although, I do see some emergency lights just up the interstate right where it crossed.
00:36So, I'm wondering if someone got blown off the interstate there.
00:39But massive wall cloud came through. Big time CG lightning and whatnot.
00:43And now we're dealing with the line of storms.
00:45The main line of storms that are approaching from the west.
00:48It actually is raining on me right now. You can probably see flashes of lightning back behind me.
00:52This main line of storms is severe warning where I'm at.
00:55A little further to the south, approaching Memphis.
00:57We have another tornado warning down there and some tornado warnings off to our north of Memphis.
01:02So, we're not out of the woods yet here. We're still dealing with some severe weather.
01:06But once this main line passes through Memphis, we should be good here in Memphis the rest of the night.
01:11We should be over with the severe weather for tonight.
01:13But this threat is going to continue off to the east, as you mentioned.
01:16Make sure you're trying to stay weather aware tonight.
01:19Even though it's becoming into the nighttime, the nocturnal hours.
01:21People are going to sleep. Still got to pay attention.
01:23Keep those alerts on your app.
01:25Make sure you're ready to enact your safety plan if you need to.
01:28Back to you guys.
01:30With that really low hanging wall cloud just scraping over the ground there.
01:35What's your plan for tomorrow? Are you going to be chasing tomorrow as well?
01:41Yeah, tracking another round of severe weather tomorrow.
01:44Likely in Arkansas. Maybe a little further south in Arkansas than today.
01:48We played more of the central and northern part of Arkansas.
01:51But likely a little bit more southern. Maybe Little Rock and south.
01:54But also a flood threat. There's a historic flood threat.
01:57We're in the midst of it now with this rain coming down.
02:00There is flash flood watches in the area.
02:02So, tracking that severe threat. Another round of severe tomorrow.
02:07And that flash flood threat.
02:09Back to you guys.
02:10Be safe, as always.
02:11Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack has been doing this a long time.
02:14Again, we don't recommend this for anybody without proper training and experience and so forth.
02:18Thanks, Aaron.
02:19In Clarkdale, Arkansas. Not too far to the north of Memphis.
02:23And that's where we've had a series of storms here barrel through.
02:26I'm going to revisit this area in a moment.
02:28But in the meantime, I want to take us up into Indianapolis.
02:30Because we have destructive straight line winds barreling through the Indianapolis metro.
02:35Now pushing east of downtown.
02:36But we also have a tornado threat on the north side.
02:39As a bookend vortex has likely produced a spin-up on the north side.