This is the threat today. It encompasses 120 million Americans.
The reason that population density is so high.
It includes places like New York,
DC, all the way to Philadelphia,
stretching into Atlanta where a few tornadoes,
damaging wind gusts and large hail are all possible.
Here's another look at that Hopkins County,
Dawson Springs, KY, tornado. This occurred again late last night.
And you can see that the most customers without power
are across the state of Kentucky.
But this is new to CNN.
Starting to see an uptick in numbers across Alabama as
well as a round of severe weather went through early
this morning.
This is all part of this larger storm system that
has just rocked the US through this extended holiday period.
So new right now we have a newly issued thunderstorm
watch that is across central Georgia and into South Carolina.
This includes the Atlanta metropolitan region where some rough weather
is causing ground stops and ground delays at Atlanta Hartsfield
Jackson International Airport.
This is valid until about 2:00 PM.
You can see that line of training storms right across
Interstate 20.
I 75 is going to be backlogged today as people
travel North and South for this Memorial Day.
You can see a few severe thunderstorm warnings,
but no tornado warnings. That's the good news.
But all that said. This map is littered with severe
weather reports from the weekend over 1000 and counting as
the system departs off the East Coast Today,
we're going to recycle with a whole new storm system
that will bring another round of severe weather tomorrow across
the state of Texas.
They're already dealing with a heat wave that's impacting the
central parts of the states as well.