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A new round of severe weather is likely to erupt from the northeastern Gulf Coast to the southern Atlantic Seaboard on Friday and Friday night, including areas that were hit by a round of thunderstorms and possible tornadoes on Wednesday. The next outburst of severe weather will also include the risk of tornadoes, AccuWeather meteorologists warn.
A handful of tornadoes were reported near the upper Gulf Coast from southern Mississippi to southwestern Georgia and the western portion of the Florida Peninsula early Wednesday morning. The potential for more tornadoes and the likelihood of severe thunderstorms, packing high winds, frequent lightning strikes and flash flooding, will shift eastward and expand northward into Wednesday evening. The risk will stretch from the eastern portion of the Florida Panhandle and the northern part of the Florida Peninsula to southeastern Georgia, the midlands and low country of South Carolina and the coastal areas of North Carolina.
.AccuWeather forecasters urge people in the path of the storms to heed all severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings through Wednesday evening. The risk of severe weather and tornadoes for this week in the Southern states will not end Wednesday evening.
As a new storm system develops along the upper Gulf Coast on Friday and rapidly strengthens, it will not take long for thunderstorms to erupt and turn severe across portions of the Southeast. A surge of warm and humid air, combined with strong winds in the middle and upper portion of the atmosphere, will spawn thunderstorms capable of producing high winds, flash flooding and tornadoes.
Late Friday night into Saturday morning, the severe weather threat is likely to extend from northeastern Florida to central North Carolina and coastal areas of North and South Carolina.
Major cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte, North Carolina, Mobile, Alabama, Charleston, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida, will be at risk for severe weather to close out the week.
As the storm system itself strengthens rapidly while moving northeastward along the Appalachians late Friday night into Saturday, the risk of severe thunderstorms with strong wind gusts may extend northward through southeastern Virginia and over the Delmarva Peninsula. Potentially damaging wind gusts, with and without thunder and lightning, can occur Saturday afternoon and evening in southeastern New England as well.
There is also the potential for a line of heavy to severe thunderstorms to march southeastward across the Florida Peninsula on Saturday. People in Orlando, Tampa and at theme parks in the region should keep alert for changing weather conditions.
The same weather pattern responsible for the rounds of severe weather and localized flash flooding in the Southeast will have its benefits, however.