the mississippi and the tennessee river valley bringing flooding rainfall and tornado, hail and damaging winds, severe storm threat. it is pretty incredible to see likely threat for louisiana, mississippi and the texas panhandle in middle of december. there is potential for ef-2 plus tornados for mississippi, alabama to the florida panhandle and the flash flood risk of heavy rainfall, inch or two and we didn t get to the blizzard, which is happening for northern plains to midwest, we have one to two inches of snow, blowing snow very difficult to travel and moves to the northeast, ice, snow, rain, thursday and friday. carley: good to know. thank you. todd: take a look at this, brand-new fox video showing illegal migrants being released
the later evening hours on friday. then it s gonna quickly weaken by saturday, but we will still see lots of rain saturday and also sunday. so some impact, storm surge we are concerned about that. we saw all the catastrophic damage in florida, so we are expecting 4 to 6 foot storm surge. what that is it s a wall of salt water, a wall of water from the ocean it moves under dry land. it s fierce, it s furious and it really just takes everything away in its path as we saw in florida. we are looking at dangerous rip currents as well, we re looking at a lot of rainfall. we could see up to a foot in some spots, that could cause some damage as well. widespread flood does continue, this system has so much moisture, it s gonna continue to have a lot of moisture, so we do have a flash flood risk. when you see the pink there, that s a moderate risk, that
amounts 4-8, widespread flood does continue, this system has so much moisture, it s gonna continue to have a lot of moisture, so we do have a flash flood risk. when you see the pink there, that s a moderate risk, that includes charlotte to greenville to myrtle beach and also charleston. we re gonna watch that very closely as we go through that tomorrow. here s your severe weather threat on top of the storm surge, and flash flooding, we do have a risk of tornadoes, and winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour and even up to 87 i saw in some spots. south carolina has a lot of trees, they can come down quickly, if the ground is saturated. so we re concerned about more power outages. but notice the severe weather warning goes into the mid-atlantic as well. virginia beach, rocky mountain, north carolina, kingston, moorhead city, bloomington, you are in the woods for severe weather threats. we are all ways concerned about
tropics. we ve already seen significant wind gusts upwards of 87 miles per hour. when it comes to the storm system, it s not just the storm surge, not just the category 4 winds. if you re not at the coast you re not going to be dealing with those is what you think. look at the rainfall. areas to the north, expansive area where the forecast models have brought as much as 20 plus inches across an expansive area. the flooding here is going to be significant. the flash flood risk is high and a lot of property damage is also going to be in place as well. when they tell you to evacuate, even if you re not by the coast, i think you should be evacuating. the risk to inland florida as well challenge our conventional wisdom. thank you very much. now the massive hurricane has kept meteorologists like pedram and storm chasers guessing as it s shifted course. you saw pedram say there as much as 100 miles in the last little while. take a look at these images from
hi, john. atlantic beach is on the opposite side of florida from where steve is, you would think that we would be a comfortable distance away, not yet feeling the effects of the storm and yet it is blustery out here. clearly nothing near the hurricane force winds that he s experiencing. people are still able to stand upright, a lot of tourists coming out to the beach one last time before conditions worsen, but you can see the heavy surf here, and that is part of the concern that as the storm makes its way across the state and back over the atlantic, even though it will be a considerably weaker storm having passed overland, there is still a threat of storm surge, a much smaller storm surge than what they are experiencing in southwest florida. but a storm surge nonetheless, and also heavy rains creating a flash flood risk. here in this part of florida,