right here, sue purcell dumping tennis ball sized hail. this is around sweetwater texas. destroying the windchill anna storm chasers vehicle. record flooding across the mississippi river. rob marciano is live in st. paul, minnesota, along the mississippi. rob, you re going to start with the severe storms. what do you see tonight? rob: david, the second day in a row storms erupting in texas and florida. let s start with texas. there was a storm that dropped a tornado just to the west of waco. still a tornado warning. the big watch area up until at least 10:00. you see those storms continuing to fire. they were clustered moved to the south towards i-10. new orleans, biloxi, mobile. the northern part of this thing pushes into ohio and virginia on friday, mid-atlantic in the northeast for heavy rain in new york city. the second trouble spot is florida. two seabreeze fronts colliding we have storms or baseball size hail. winds at 80 plus miles an hour.
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st louis. if it isn t right now, within the next four or five minutes, and then it will head towards east st louis, collinsville and jarvis within the next half an hour to 45 minutes or so. so be prepared for these storms because they are very, very dangerous, all part of a line of storms that stretches all the way from the st louis area down to houston. the yellow areas are areas where we have severe thunderstorm warnings. because of the threat for damaging winds. large hail the red is a tornado watch in effect until 10 pm because more storms could develop in that area that could prompt even more warnings. but you see, jim all these areas all these orange boxes. they stretch all the way down to houston. these are all individual storms. that means businesslot of wind and up to baseball size. hail it really is dangerous folks in st louis, please get to safety. yes please be careful. indeed gene. norman. i know you ll stay on top of this all night. thank you so much for tracking that for
valley, mississippi river valley and then eventually make its way to the eastern seaboard. but as it travels to the east, it should start losing a lot of its intensity. we still have tornado watches. in effect. we have some severe thunderstorm warnings. we don t have any tornado warnings at the moment, which is good news and new severe thunderstorm watch has just been issued for portions of ohio. so we re still monitoring these very closely because at any time any of these storms could become severe, we could see enough other tornado warning. so of course definitely something to monitor here is a live look in cincinnati, you can see some dark clouds hanging over but no rain as we speak. we are looking at some lingering showers across a little rock and on into memphis. we do have a severe thunderstorm warning just to the north of memphis. we had 10 tornado reports yesterday with 45 wind reports and 170 hail reports the hell was enormous yesterday. here s a look at some golf ball size he