Posts Tagged ‘Storm Watch’

Newly formed Tropical Storm 04W may pose threats for both the northern Philippines and eventually Japan. As of Friday morning, EDT, the center of Tropical Storm 04W (which had yet to be given a name) was located approximately 200 miles east-southeast of the small island of Yap.

At least 11 areas were under Storm Signal No. 1 Saturday as a low-pressure area (LPA) nearing the country intensified into a tropical depression Friday night. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said the cyclone was codenamed “Bebeng” and was moving west-northwest at 13 kph. “Bicol region and Eastern Visayas will experience [...]

Tropical low pressure centered off the east of the Philippines as of Thursday could become a named tropical storm during the late week. Localized flooding will accompany the system’s path through the Philippines region, even if the weather system fails to develop. Formation of a tropical storm would imply potentially damaging winds.

The high-powered severe weather outbreak that claimed dozens of lives across the South on Wednesday will finish up business along the Atlantic Seaboard today. While not likely to have the same ferocity of the storms over the middle of the nation in recent days, today’s weather in the East has the potential to do far [...]

Drenching showers and gusty thunderstorms in the Ohio Valley will continue to exacerbate flooding problems tonight. Inches of rain have already inundated this area since Friday. Downpours will inundate cities and towns from eastern Oklahoma into western Ohio with another two to four inches of rain through Monday night. Locally higher amounts will be possible. [...]

A storm system charging across the Plains will trigger violent thunderstorms from Dallas to Columbus, Ohio tonight and Saturday, creating dangerous conditions as the weekend begins. The thunderstorms will threaten areas from Oklahoma into the Ohio Valley, erupting as cooler air diving across the Plains clashes with the warm, moist air in place. A few [...]

Before the Ohio and mid-Mississippi valleys face another outbreak of severe weather on Friday, violent thunderstorms will target Dallas, Oklahoma City and other parts of the southern Plains later today. The severe weather will first ignite this afternoon along a front, threatening the corridor in Texas from San Angelo to Abilene to Dallas-Fort Worth.

Following deadly tornadoes and strong thunderstorms across the nation’s midsection late Thursday, the threat for powerful storms will shift to the Southeast today. A line of damaging thunderstorms will plow through the lower Mississippi Valley first today, impacting cities such as Alexandria, La., Vicksburg, Miss., and Jackson, Tenn., this morning.

High winds whipping eastward from the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday have stirred up blinding dust storms from the Syrian Desert to the heart of Iraq. Triggered by a cold front, winds of 30 to 50 mph, locally stronger, brought visibility to near zero as thick clouds of dust lofted over eastern Syria and Jordan into [...]

An extensive line of severe thunderstorms will ignite along the powerful cold front on Monday, threatening communities from the Ohio and Tennessee valleys to the western Gulf Coast. The cold front that will trigger the severe storms early in the week is the same one bringing the threat of damaging storms from Dallas to Chicago [...]