Six thousand people will soon likely be facing damaging winds, flooding rain and tornadoes.
Millions of people are waking up to flooding rain, damaging winds and possible tornadoes across the Deep South, where round of severe storms is expected Saturday by New Orleans to Tallahassee, Florida.
Friday’s storms continue Saturday morning, together with numerous tornado warnings and flash flooding alerts.
There are still tornado watches and severe storm warnings through the morning.
So far, there were 159 reports of hail throughout the South and 18 wind reports. 1 tornado has been seen, but not confirmed, in Pelahatchie, Mississippi. Up to 67 mph wind gusts have been reported and up to 3-inch in diameter hail.
You will find far more than 121,000 customers without electricity Saturday in the South, for example more than 50,000 with no power in Louisiana and over 42,000 in Mississippi.
After facing back-to-back severe storms all week, even more storms are hitting on the South Saturday afternoon through the day from southeast Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, extending into the western parts of Georgia.
Approximately 6 million people will likely be facing damaging winds, flooding rain and a few tornadoes.
These storms move east on Sunday, affecting Northern Florida to New York City.
Up to 4 inches of rain are possible over the next couple of times with those storms.
