all day long, you re sniffing that in. that s so true. subliminal advertising for them, right? exactly. betty, a lot of concerns in texas this morning with severe weather. we just got you would think here we are in the new year, typically this time of the year we re talking about winter storms, blizzards, ice. and we still have a little bit of that, but we just had an 82-mile-per-hour wind gust with a thunderstorm in hamilton, texas. that s just to the south of dallas outside of waco. so this line of storms in the middle of the night in january means business. and that is kind of like a mini severe weather spring-type day in texas, louisiana, mississippi and alabama. you really have to watch out, not just from the damaging winds, but the isolated tornadoes later today. this yellow box is a severe thunderstorm watch box. no concerns or tornadoes this morning, just damaging winds. we ll track the storms that are now here that will move right through the deep south right along the g
their needs and assessment but governor abbot is planning to meet with leaders to discuss next steps in regards to our request for fema funding. mr. mayor, thank you so much for san marcos texas. let s go to msnbc moll jilg gist meteorologist bill karins. bill, is there any letup in sight? after today. but first we have to get through today. this band that goes through areas of tennessee, this is what was over the top of oklahoma and texas over the weekend. that storm has moved out but this new batch is moving in. we have a severe thunderstorm watch box and you can notice up towards the lubbock area, these thunderstorms blew up in a hurry and now they re going to the north. midland, you re safe now. this area isn t flooded as badly as areas to the east but the problems is these storms forming out here those will trek across the region today. so we have flash flood watches
carolinas. look at the hailstone yesterday this is the kind of hail potential we re talking about for today. that can cause some damage. we re going to want you to be very careful today. here s the latest. the severe thunderstorm watch box is going here. this is dangerous for oklahoma and into parts of kansas this is not the main event that will come later this evening. those are the thunderstorms that i think are going to be more severe and are going to be the ones that are going to be likely dropping down tornadoes, we ll watch it closely. because of the spin in the atmosphere we have the upper level low that s going. more moist air coming up from the south. cool dry air from the north. we get the clash, without the low would you get a line of thunderstorms. because of the low, we have the spin vertically and that s when we talk about the potential for some tornadoes. where are we here? well central texas going up into oklahoma city. into parts of eastern colorado and into western ka
to be covering. this is a severe thunderstorm watch box that includes texas, oklahoma kansas as well. later this afternoon i think we ll have tornado watch boxes that are going to come up and have advisories for that. because the atmosphere is destabilizing we have this upper-level low to the north. all the ingredients you need for tornadoes to form are present i think we re going to have an outbreak later on this afternoon. we ll watch it closely. afternoon into evening from abilene, dallas and heading up towards eastern colorado and parts of kansas as well. here s the line right now. it s going to be moving through. watch oklahoma city they ll be getting in on showers and thunderstorms and discrete cells will begin to develop. they could spawn some strong tornadoes, we ll watch for that you see them popping up through texas and oklahoma and kansas as well. that would be for late they are afternoon and evening. continuing into 8:00 9:00 p.m. we ll get some lose some daylight out there
able to get it? can he do it? he almost fell over going in. what s he lost now? he s lost his beer. he s going to have to go back to get that. that s pretty valuable. has he managed to get out? yes. i don t think that s that good a hat for that. he s lost his place plant. old mangos down. time for a check on your weather. do you own a hat that s worth jumping into a pond at a golf course for? i do not? i do not but i will say i m not a golf fan. that s the most riveting golf i ve ever seen in my life. i would have watched that all day. we are still talking storms and it s down to the south. it s the same areas today that we saw yesterday. we do have a thunderstorm watch box up now for about a next half hour through parts of oklahoma.