METEOROLOGY
Washington, Mar 18 (EFE News) .- More than twenty tornadoes left dozens of houses destroyed in the last hours in a vast region of the southern United States due to the passage of a system that, according to meteorologists, will cause conditions this Thursday. still volatile in the southeast and east of the country.
March is typically a month of volatile weather conditions as spring weather pushes in the winter chill, and it is when both are found that extreme events, including tornadoes, are most common.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned that conditions conducive to tornadoes continue today in Florida and Georgia, with storms covering a swath of the eastern part of the country that runs from the southern Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
“Isolated strong storms are expected in portions of eastern Georgia, the Carolinas and southeastern Virginia,” noted a NOAA bulletin. “Serious damage is possible. Other strong, isolated storms are possible from southern Ohio to central Appalachia. “
As of Wednesday night, the National Weather Storm Forecast Center had received reports of at least 24 tornadoes, with the most severe damage in Alabama and Mississippi.
In Hale County, Alabama, at least 37 homes were severely damaged by the storms that affected the towns of Moundville and Akron.
The National Weather Service office in Birmingham reported a “large and extremely dangerous” tornado near Shelton State Community College, south of Tuscaloosa.
Angela Atchison, from Mississippi’s Wayne County Emergency Management Agency, told CNN that a tornado had affected that district, damaging two houses and blocking roads with debris and tree limbs.
–
