Severe weather risk raised in Southeast amid multiday threat of storms, tornadoes
A damaged tree sits on the side of Elvis Presley Drive in Tupelo, Miss., on May 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Thomas Graning via CNN)
by: Madeline Holcombe, Michael Guy and Eric Levenson, CNN
Posted:
May 4, 2021 / 10:08 PM EST
(CNN) The risk of severe thunderstorms was raised to a Level 4 out of 5 in parts of Mississippi and Alabama amid a multiday storm outbreak that has already killed three people.
In all, nearly 100 million people stretching from the Gulf Coast up to New England could see severe weather on Tuesday, defined as a storm that produces a tornado, damaging winds or large hail, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
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