The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued severe weather warnings and alerts to “tens of millions of people” across the United States as a powerful system has started to develop on March 31.
“At least a few long-track, strong to potentially violent tornadoes, intense damaging wind, and very large hail are probable across much of the Mississippi Valley,” said the NWS in a bulletin.
The weather service’s Storm Prediction Center expanded an area of concern to the central United States, impacting millions of people. More than 85 million people were under weather advisories due to a potential outbreak of thunderstorms with the potential to cause hail, damaging wind gusts, and strong tornadoes that could move for long distances over the ground….