Heavy storms with harmful winds and flood floods threaten central and east of the United States

Prognostics warn of great hails, harmful winds and fall floods in areas from Texas to the state of New York, since a dangerous storm system continues to tear in central and eastern parts of the United States.

The Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service has placed parts of West Texas and southwest of Oklahoma as well as routes of Ohio Valley, Western Pennsylvania and the state of New York under an “improved” risk of a storm on Tuesday, the third level of its five -stage classification system.

Prognostics warned that southern areas were exposed to the risk of hail and isolated tornados, while the northern United States, including the Great Lakes, were at risk of damaging winds.

The Storm Prediction Center warned that hailstones that are larger than baseball could fall on Tuesday in Northwest of Texas, accompanied by wind gusts of up to 75 miles per hour. The threat from storms is expected to be stronger during the day.

Tornados were also possible in parts of Texas and Oklahoma, in Ohio Valley and in the state of New York. In the late morning, a short-lived tornado warning for an area around Springfield, Mo, was issued (warnings are issued after a tornado has been discovered on a radar or a trained spotter sees a tornado, while watches see the conditions for the formation of a tornado in place.)

But Matt Mosier, a senior prognostic in the Storm Prediction Center, said that Tornados is not the main danger.

The storm threats on Tuesday follow a tense Monday in the upper middle west, in which areas of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin under the classification system of the weather service were set under a higher risk of tornados. In the end, only two were reported in Minnesota and Wisconsin, a calmer result that forecasting were due to thunderstorms that remain along the cold front connected to the storm system.

“If this happens, it is less likely that it produces a tornado and most likely produces hail and harmful winds,” said Mosier.

In the areas of Oklahoma in Kansas in Kansas in Oklahoma hail was recorded in teacup size hail.

Another concern on Tuesday is rain: Northeast -Texas, Central -Oklahoma and Western Arkansas, with a moderate risk of falling flooding until Thursday, whereby the weather service warns of “locally catastrophic floods” in parts of the south -wet Oklahoma when rain falls on recently soaked terrain.

“If you get such a fixed cold front and there is a lot of moisture, it is a kind of recipe for numerous rains and storms,” ​​said Mosier.

The storm is expected to move east at the weekend, whereby high pressure achieves a time calmer weather. But every break can only be short -lived, since another storm system in the western United States will develop on Saturday.

“It is only at this time of year,” said Mr. Mosier. “We don’t really have a long time without a system getting through.”