Atlanta – A dynamic storm system that threatens to generate powerful tornadoes and sound as large as baseball balls has earned a relatively rare designation of forecasting: a day of “high risk” of severe climate.
Missouri parts, Iowa and Illinois saw some of The most extreme climate On Friday, with the prognosis of the system to aim on Saturday to the southern states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
“Numerous significant tornadoes, some of which should be long and potentially violent, are expected on Saturday afternoon and night,” said the Federal Center for Storm Prediction in its last prognosis.
The storm prediction center uses five categories to warn about the expected severe climate, ranging from marginal to high. Its forecast maps are coded by colors, with the lowest risk areas in green and the highest shown in Magenta.
On Saturday, this area of greatest risk includes parts of Mississippi and Alabama.
The designation of “high risk” is used when severe climate is expected to include “numerous intense and long monitoring tornado” or thunderstorms that produce hurricane force winds and inflict generalized damage, according to the descriptions of the agency’s products.
In many days, when the designation of “high risk” was used in recent years, forecasts came true.
On May 6, 2024, the Storm Prediction Center assigned the high -risk category to parts of Kansas and Oklahoma, warning of “multiple significant tornaries along potentially long roads.”
The prognosis was witness, since dozens of tornadoes shattered the landscape. One of the strongest crossed the small town of Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
The aerial video showed many houses reduced to debris batteries. Some 25 people were rescued from the houses where the buildings had collapsed in them or around them, said the mayor of the city at that time.
On March 31, 2023, the Storm Prediction Center described two areas along the Mississippi River Valley with high risk of tornadoes.
Hours after this prognosis was broadcast, multiple tanks collapsed a theater roof during a heavy metal concert in Illinois and houses and shopping centers in Arkansas.
TO ceiling collapse In the Apollo Theater in Belvidere, Illinois, killed a person and wounded more than two dozen of others. Around 260 people were in the place at that time, said the local fire chief.
