Severe Weather Outbreak Possible With Tornadoes Across Parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas

Severe Weather Likely Across Parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida With Francine's Inland Track

09/10/24 9:14am ET

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Good morning everyone. The Northeast continues to bask in sunshine and very comfortable temps overall with cool mornings & low humidity. High pressure has an iron grip on the region, and that'll protect the area from any tropical remnants later this weekend.

We also need to adjust the high temperatures by a couple of degrees due to positioning of that high pressure offshore. Look for highs 70-80 degrees today through Thursday, then we warm up into the mid 80's for Friday and the weekend. No upper 80's are expected anymore on Friday due to the wind-flow direction.

The Gulf Coast remains our big story, plus interior sections northward into the Mississippi Valley. Our immediate concern is actually not what-will-be Hurricane Francine (soon), it's the new outflow boundary of Francine. Yesterday we talked about how our stationary front along Florida to Louisiana would eventually morph into the outflow of our tropical system, and that conversion is almost complete.

What this means for the area is heavier rain, more robust thunderstorms, and stronger winds. We will also see an isolated severe weather component, with locally damaging winds, frequent lightning, small hail, and possible waterspouts. Look for this action to continue throughout the day, but because it's now connected to Francine, it won't fade out as the sun goes down.

Look for heavy tropical showers & storms to continue throughout the overnight hours and up into and including Hurricane Francine's landfall & inland movement. Landfall is expected around the central coast of Louisiana some time tomorrow afternoon as a strong Category 1 or minimal Category 2 storm.

Aside from the usual dangerous and life threatening immediate aspects of an approaching hurricane, we will be watching closely for a severe weather and tornado outbreak for interior sections of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois; possibly including parts of Florida & Georgia as well as that tail of energy whips around.

Look for torrential rain, damaging winds, large hail, frequent lightning, widespread rain flooding, and the risk of numerous brief tornadoes. While tornadoes with a landfalling hurricane are typically in the EF0-EF1 range in strength, we could see a few EF2 - EF3 tornadoes the further inland she goes.

Here is your local NYC Metro forecast -

Sunshine continues to rule for the next 6-7 days with upper 70's likely today. Lows dip back into the 50's tonight, then more upper 70's return tomorrow.

Look for more upper 70's Thursday with sunshine, then mid 80's on Friday for a nice warmup.

Mid 80's continue for Saturday & Sunday with full sunshine under the protection of high pressure.

National Weather Service - Tropical Storm Warning - New Orleans, LA