WeatherFanatics: LIVE: Severe Storms Unfolding Across the Southern Plains and Deep South

Sunday, June 8, 2014

LIVE: Severe Storms Unfolding Across the Southern Plains and Deep South

By Mark Leberfinger, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

June 8,2014; 9:40PM,EDT

Severe weather continues to erupt across parts of the southern Plains and Deep South. Earlier Sunday, tornadoes swept through parts of Colorado, causing damage and one minor injury, according to The Associated Press.
The threat for tornadoes through Sunday evening will remain highest across the central and southern High Plains. Otherwise, the strongest thunderstorms across the High Plains and from Texas to Alabama and the Florida Panhandle will produce damaging winds, hail and flooding downpours.
Later Sunday evening as a storm emerges from the Rockies, the violent thunderstorms from eastern Colorado and those that erupt in northeastern New Mexico will drop southeastward into western Texas and far western Oklahoma with damaging winds, hail and flooding downpours. During the overnight hours, this strong complex of thunderstorms will continue to press to central Texas with powerful winds and heavy rain.
The severe thunderstorms from eastern Colorado will also press into western Kansas, while parts of western Nebraska will see heavy rain.

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Updates: (All times are listed in Central time)

10:34 p.m. CDT Sunday: Flooding over roads 1 mile northwest of Canyon, Texas, or 15 miles south of Amarillo, emergency management reports
10:30 p.m. CDT Sunday: Entergy Arkansas reports that more than 8,400 of its customers are now without service:
9:53 p.m. CDT Sunday: As storms move toward Amarillo, more than 770 Xcel Energy customers have lost service, the utility reports.
9:46 p.m. CDT Sunday: 66 mph gust 9 miles northeast of Amarillo, Texas, according to Mesonet. NWS spotter reported penny-size hail 17 miles northwest of Amarillo.

9:43 p.m. CDT Sunday: 0.99 inches of rain in 50 minutes at Texarkana, Arkansas, airport, according to NWS observation.
9:30 p.m. CDT Sunday: Hail in Evergreen, Colorado:
9:29 p.m. CDT Sunday: Hail from earlier Sunday in Colorado:
9:18 p.m. CDT Sunday: Trees downed and estimated 60 mph winds at Boys Ranch, Texas, reports fire department.
9:15 p.m. CDT Sunday: More than 5,000 Arkansas electric customers are without power, utilities report.
9:10 p.m. CDT Sunday: Alabama Power continues to reduce the number of power outages in its state:
8:37 p.m. CDT Sunday: Tennis ball-sized hail near Carlsbad, New Mexico, NWS spotter reports.
7:51 p.m. CDT Sunday: Tennis ball-sized hail in Artesia, New Mexico, reports NWS spotter.
7:41 p.m. CDT Sunday:
7:26 p.m. CDT Sunday: More than 4,600 US flights delayed and another 273 canceled, according to FlightStats.
6:46 p.m. CDT Sunday: Wind gusts of up to 55 mph reported in Grand Junction, Colorado, according to NWS spotter.
6:30 p.m. CDT Sunday: Golf ball-sized hail near Dexter, New Mexico, reports NWS spotter.
6:01 p.m. CDT Sunday: Accuweather.com Meteorologist Brian Edwards said there are two primary concerns across the country.
"The first of which is across eastern New Mexico and western Texas where any thunderstorms that fire up through the evening hours could produce hail to the size of baseballs and even a couple of tornadoes," Edwards said.
"The second area of concern is across the Gulf Coast from Louisiana through the Florida Panhandle. Damaging wind gusts to 70 mph and large hail to the size of golfballs," he added.
5:07 p.m. CDT Sunday: Golf ball-sized hail in Summerfield, Alabama, the emergency manager reports.
4:28 p.m. CDT Sunday: Trees and power lines down in Elba, Alabama, according to the 911 call center.
4:07 p.m. CDT Sunday: Severe storms moving through Denver and Colorado Springs.

3:12 p.m. CDT Sunday:
2:52 p.m. CDT Sunday:
2:26 p.m. CDT Sunday: Due to wind, traffic is experience gate hold and traffic delays between 31 and 45 minutes out of Denver International Airport, the FAA reports.
2:09 p.m. CDT Sunday: At 12:54 p.m. MDT, a tornado was reported 2 miles south of Grover, Colorado, according to an NWS spotter.
2:02 p.m. CDT Sunday: 12:56 p.m. MDT: Thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado located near Arapahoe Park or 17 miles SE of Denver, moving east.

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