- Severe storms may move east ahead of a cold front today.
- Damaging winds, a few tornadoes and localized flash flooding are all possible threats.
- The system has caused severe flash flooding, tornadoes, damaging winds and large hail across the South since Monday night.
Severe storms will continue to move eastward Thursday before a cold front moves through parts of the South and East, possibly producing some tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and localized flash flooding.
(more: April marks the beginning of peak tornado season)
What are we tracking now?
Currently, widespread showers and thunderstorms are affecting parts of the South, Midwest and East.
Below are the latest radars and any active watches and warnings.
The weather system has produced widespread damaging winds, large hail, severe flash flooding and several tornadoes since Monday night, stretching from Texas and Oklahoma to Gulf Coast states. You can view storm reports submitted to the National Weather Service in the map below.
See our storm recap for more details on impacts, which included severe flash flooding in New Orleans on Wednesday and a damaging tornado in nearby Slidell.
Bad weather today
-A serious threat will arrive in parts of the East on Thursday, but two corridors are at greater risk of severe weather.
-One includes parts of Ohio, eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, western Virginia and western Pennsylvania. Another region spans northern and central Florida.
– Damaging thunderstorm gusts and possibly a few tornadoes are the main concern. Heavy rain may cause localized flash flooding in parts of the east.
storm review
The storm began late Monday with large hail being the main impact from northern Texas to western Tennessee.
Severe weather Tuesday produced wind gusts of up to 88 mph at Caprock Canyon State Park in northwest Texas. Hail larger than a softball was reported near Briggs, Texas. Hail the size of golf balls and larger occurred in parts of the Austin, Texas, metropolitan area.
An EF2 tornado was reported early Wednesday morning near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Slidell, Louisiana, northeast of New Orleans, suffered severe damage from an EF1 tornado.
Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding emergencies in Kirbyville and New Orleans, Texas, on Wednesday and in Tallahassee, Florida, early Thursday.
Chris Doles Has been a senior meteorologist at Weather.com for over 10 years, starting her career at The Weather Channel in the early 2000s.
