Hail, flooding and winds slam US from South to Northeast
Storms spanned across large parts of the U.S. bringing heavy rainfall, damaging wind and hail.
Days on end of a severe weather outbreak walloping the south-central United States will on May 2 stretch up through Tennessee and Kentucky with “intense clusters of thunderstorms,” forecasters said.
The severe thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon to evening and could also bring corridors of strong wind gusts and hail, the largest of which will come over central Texas, the Storm Prediction Center said. A tornado or two is also possible, according to the National Weather Service. More than 1.1 million people in north Texas and Oklahoma were under a severe thunderstorm watch early May 2.
Flooding remains a concern with a slight risk of excessive rainfall in the south-central region after days of heavy rains have already saturated the ground, leading to deadly flooding in Oklahoma.
The end of April and beginning of May have brought intense rounds of storms across a large swath of the country from Texas through upstate New York. At least five people have died in recent days from storms that brought severe winds to Pennsylvania and flooding in Oklahoma.
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