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A severe weather system that damaged parts of Texas is expected to have an impact on several US states.
A winter storm that delivered severe storms to the Gulf Coast and torrential rains to the north was traveling east Wednesday, one day after tornadoes ravaged Houston.
When the storm system hit Houston's densely populated area on Tuesday, meteorologists were prompted to declare a rare tornado alert. Several communities east of Houston sustained significant damage, although no casualties were recorded in the US Winter Storm, per AP News.
A tornado slammed the Morel Lane region north of Baton Rouge, flipping mobile homes and injuring three persons mildly to moderately, according to the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office.
The Ozarks had significant snowfall on Tuesday. As of Wednesday morning, more than 160,000 homes and businesses in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri were without electricity after the US Winter Storm.
Severe thunderstorms with the potential to spawn additional tornadoes moved through the Florida Panhandle before sunrise on Wednesday. Tallahassee and Savannah, Georgia, as well as other cities in northern Florida and southern Georgia, will remain in the path of these storms until early afternoon, The New York Times reported.
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More Snow To Hit Midwest, Mid-Atlantic
The National Weather Service forecasted 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 cm) of snowfall for most New England. US Winter Storm warnings were issued from southern Missouri to Maine.
A major winter storm is unfolding over the Southern Plains this afternoon and will head toward the Great Lakes on Wednesday. Heavy snow is possible for some areas of the Midwest and eventually the Northeast by Thursday. See our Key Messages for more information. pic.twitter.com/WfVm1mLHKG
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) January 24, 2023
The Weather Prediction Center predicted that the recent snowfall would help alleviate the "snow drought" across the "Midwest, northern Mid-Atlantic, New York State, and central to northern New England," all of which have had much lower-than-average snowfall totals this season.
The Mid-Mississippi Valley should expect a snowstorm early on Wednesday. Until early Wednesday, the National Weather Service warned on Twitter that heavy precipitation and freezing rain over Oklahoma and the Ozarks would spread northeast into the Ohio Valley, per CNN.
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