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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.
and beaten, and a family left to salvage what they can from the rubble. it is really sad. i hate seeing my family cry because they lost everything i hate all these things are like gone. i keep thinking like what now and like i have nothing. but trying to stay positive because last night was really terrible. a lot of tears. so it is just hard to see. meteorologist jean norman is joining me now. and this line of storms is still moving. what are the areas under threat? anywhere from southern wisconsin down to the boot hill of missouri, under tornado watches until 8:00 central time. the threat of tornadoes, threat of hail as long as a golf ball and winds up to 70 miles per hour. you are already starting to see some of the storms erupting in that area. and the threat stretches from the great lakes down into
day weekend for everybody. it s a pool, a boat, a go to the lake, we have a couple of thunderstorms. not a lot of major concerns but northern minnesota and also these storms erupting in wisconsin waking people up earlier than they probably wanted. heat advisory up through st. louis, chicago is under a heat watch. chicago heat index about 100 to 105 saturday right through monday so an extended stretch of really hot weather. so the growing heat is expanding towards the tennessee valley today. areas like nashville are going to get hot and then eventually sunday and monday it makes its way to the east coast. heat index, that s the feels like temperature, remember, when we tell you the high temperatures, that s taken in the shade. so if you re in the sun it s that much worse. so memphis is 93 in the shade. heat index will feel like 100 and by the time we get through saturday it expands. atlanta 94. little rock 100.
all right. as you are sitting inside, you are probably wondering what does the weather have in store for me today. let s find out, especially in new york in belmont. it looks like it is going to be fairly warm for the mile and a half race. the temperature could be in the low 80s, partly sunny to mostly sunny skies. big storms erupting across the central plains. we just saw an 87-mile-an-hour wind gust reported in oklahoma city. thunderstorms now moving across kansas city. heavy downpours, the big problem. we could see a couple more inches as we go through the afternoon, but already, this area has been saturated. already, as much as two inches of rainfall in some areas in oklahoma. the ground is saturated.