Several homes in Arkansas damaged as tornado watches in effect throughout the South - ABC News

Tornadoes brought connected by terrible storms connected Monday near important harm successful parts of the South, namely Louisiana and Arkansas.

The storms volition proceed to propulsion eastbound connected Tuesday with terrible thunderstorms and tornado warnings successful effect from Texas to Kentucky. The large menace portion for Tuesday volition beryllium from Louisiana to Alabama and Tennessee. Cities successful the way see New Orleans; Nashville, Tennessee,; Mobile, Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama.

The main threats connected Tuesday are tornadoes, damaging winds and flash flooding.

In Louisiana, 10,000 customers are without powerfulness connected Tuesday with ongoing terrible storms. The nonstop fig of tornadoes is inactive unknown. Storm surveys volition request to beryllium taken connected Tuesday.

The section occurrence section is responding to galore stranded motorists and h2o rescues from residences successful Greenville, Kentucky, amid flash flooding. Authorities said galore roadways are flooded wrong the metropolis and passim our district. Numerous archetypal responders and roadworthy crews are blocking flooded roadways.

Multiple homes were damaged successful Jessieville, Arkansas, connected Monday aft a imaginable tornado passed done the area, instrumentality enforcement officials told ABC News.

Garland County Sheriff's Office Deputy Courtney Kizer said 14 homes were damaged, with astatine slightest 2 homes truthful severely that respective families would not beryllium capable to unrecorded successful them again.

A tornado ticker was issued for portions of the South, including parts of eastbound Texas, northwestern Louisiana and overmuch of Arkansas connected Monday.

One of those destroyed homes was crossed the thoroughfare from Jessieville High School, which had 7 of its buildings damaged.

Students were successful people astatine the clip and were directed to spell to their "safe rooms," Kizer said.

Three commercialized buildings successful Jessieville were besides damaged. No injuries were reported.

Thunderstorms volition make up of a acold beforehand making its mode done southeast Texas precocious Monday nighttime into Tuesday morning, according to the NWS.

Severe tempest ticker for States successful the U.S. South for the evening of Jan. 2, 2023.

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Additionally, the storms could besides nutrient flash flooding done Monday night. Flood watches are successful effect.

By Tuesday, the terrible storms volition displacement eastbound crossed Mississippi and Alabama, with flooding and damaging winds imaginable from New Orleans to Montgomery, Alabama.

The aforesaid tempest strategy that brought flooding to California implicit the play has present moved into the Central U.S., bringing the wintertime tempest to the North and the terrible upwind and flooding to the South.

At slightest 22 states, from California to Indiana, are nether alert for dense snow, unsafe ice, precocious winds and flooding rain.

More than 3 feet of snowfall fell successful the Sierra Mountains successful California implicit the weekend. According to the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, up to 7.5 inches of snowfall fell per hr connected Saturday successful the Sierras.

Over a ft of snowfall and winds implicit 40 mph are imaginable successful Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota connected Monday and Tuesday, perchance causing driving conditions and powerfulness outages.

Nearly a ft of snowfall had already fallen successful bluish Nebraska arsenic of Tuesday morning. Up to a ft and a fractional of snowfall is inactive imaginable successful parts of South Dakota and Minnesota.

The California seashore is preparing for an inundation of dense rainfall with the adjacent atmospheric stream acceptable to flood parts of the authorities from Wednesday greeting to Thursday morning. The National Weather Service warned it volition beryllium an impactful tempest and needs to beryllium taken seriously.