Stormy weather was moving east Wednesday, setting off numerous warnings and watches for millions of people from Texas to Mississippi.
Waves of intense weather were moving east on Wednesday, bringing flash flooding and tornadoes the New Orleans area and other parts of the central Gulf Coast, the National Weather Service said.
More than a dozen flash flood warnings were issued early in the day, including one for New Orleans where between one-half and two inches of rain have fallen and one to three inches are possible, forecasters said.
There’s also a substantial risk of tornadoes in the area, and some of those could be strong. The first tornado warnings have been issued for some rural areas, and more were expected through the morning. Forecasters warned that more than seven million people across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama could experience extreme weather through the day.
The weather in the region began to deteriorate before dawn. The Weather Service issued more than a dozen tornado warnings and watches that covered towns from Texas to Mississippi. One of the more significant bulletins was a tornado watch issued for the southeastern portion of Louisiana north to Columbus, Miss., until the early afternoon.
(A tornado warning is an urgent alert issued after a weather forecaster spots a possible tornado on a radar or a trained spotter sees a tornado. A watch means weather conditions are favorable for one to form in an area.)
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