qlcs, i ll explain that in a bit. but that means tornado watches from huntsville to pensacola back to new orleans. it s called a kwas si linear convective system. you have that line of storms. that means damaging winds if excess of 60, with imbedded tornadoes. so, it s double the danger. then, you go into northern alabama tonight, you time it. atlanta could see some slowdowns because of thunderstorms at the airports and such. more damaging wind from raleigh down to jacksonville. and up in columbus, david, and even fort wayne. ginger zee, thank you. in the meantime, we re going to turn now to the heated confirmation hearings under way for president biden s historic supreme court nominee, judge ketanji brown jackson. judge jackson defending her rcord today. she was also pressed on defending detainees at
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across the area, even though you re 100 or so miles away from the landfall. seven to 11 feet here from biloxi, back to new orleans. that s the surge. now, i know katrina had a 20-foot surge, so this isn t katrina, but 11 feet, that is a big surge for a coastal community. this is like a catcher s mitt. all this water is going to pile up and run up the rivers and that s where the surge is going to be the worst. here s where the radar looks like right now. we re going to move you ahead now. kind of advance the radar all the way through tonight and even up to mobile. very heavy rainfall. flash flooding when it comes to fresh water rainfall flooding likely in alabama, georgia, kentucky, tennessee, all the way up to west virginia. now we get to the wind speeds. biloxi, gulf shores, only in the 50s by 7:00. look at this, 11:00 tonight, biloxi you may have a wind gust of 123. it s a forecast wind gust. computer model, i get it, but that s what the computer model is thinking right now. let me t
golf ball size hale pummelled part of that state. torrential downpours caused flooding along the missouri/kansas boarder. andrea peters joins me. we have gone to the severe weather season. what are we looking at? yesterday, eight tornadoes were out there. a lot of times you get strong, straight line wind. we saw about 133 of those. also very large hail back through texas yesterday. a lot of people think this is a yesterday incident. that is not the case. in fact, we are still looking at the squall line with the weather. you can cisse veer thunderstorm watches currently out there. the threat is still there for isolated tornadoes but less than yesterday. nonetheless, if you re in charleston, roanoke, asheville, farther again the tail section is down to the south. back to new orleans, you still have that threat for severe thunderstorms and isolated tornado. that s the concern today. the back side of this has been heavy rain.