WeatherFanatics: LIVE: Severe Storms Erupting from Tenn. to Colo.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

LIVE: Severe Storms Erupting from Tenn. to Colo.

By Kevin Byrne, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

June 7,2014; 10:10PM,EDT

Severe thunderstorms are unfolding across portions of the southern Plains and Mississippi Valley this Saturday with one primary threat area ranging from western Tennessee through southern Oklahoma.
These ongoing storms continue to produce hail, damaging winds and flooding downpours. Several tornadoes were reported to have touched down.
Cities in the path of this severe weather include: Memphis, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; and McAlester, Oklahoma.
Also through Saturday evening, more severe thunderstorms will erupt across portions of southeastern Colorado, West Texas, eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma. These areas will have the potential to see wind gusts up to 70 mph, flooding downpours and hail the size of baseballs. A few tornadoes will touch down.

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Updates: (All times are listed in Central time)

11:20 p.m. CDT Saturday: Golf-ball-sized hail fell at Levelland, Texas, reports NWS spotter.
11:10 p.m. CDT Saturday: 4,400 customers in the Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, area are without electricity after line of storms moved through the area, OG+E reports.

10:58 p.m. CDT Saturday: Large tree blown onto a home near Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama, reports NWS spotter.
10:52 p.m. CDT Saturday: At least 3,600 west Texas power customers are without service, utilities report.
10:47 p.m. CDT Saturday: Flooding and numerous power outages at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, reports NWS spotter:

10:46 p.m. CDT Saturday: 81 mph gust 1 mile northeast of Amherst, Texas, reports Mesonet.
10:35 p.m. CDT Saturday: 0.99 inches of rain fell in one hour, 5 miles northwest of Hedley, Texas, reports Mesonet.
10:30 p.m. CDT Saturday: Infrared satellite image shows storms blowing up over Texas and Oklahoma:

10:16 p.m. CDT Saturday: Tornado at 10:10 p.m. CDT Saturday, 6 miles north of Sudan, Texas, law enforcement reports.

10:14 p.m. CDT Saturday: 66 mph gust and golf-ball-sized hail at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, spotter and Mesonet reports.
9:58 p.m. CDT Saturday: Numerous roads flooded in Peoria, Illinois, reports law enforcement. 3.25 inches of rain had fallen 4 miles northwest of the city, a National Weather Service employee reported.

9:56 p.m. CDT Saturday: Golf-ball-sized hail fell at Levelland, Texas, reports NWS spotter.
9:48 p.m. CDT Saturday: Tornado touchdown around 8:30 p.m. MDT Saturday, west of Texico, New Mexico, reports emergency management.
9:40 p.m. CDT Saturday: More than 9,000 Mississippi electric customers without service, utilities report:
9:33 p.m. CDT Saturday: Hen-egg-sized hail fell 10 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico, reports NWS spotter.
9:24 p.m. CDT Saturday: Golf-ball-sized hail fell at Ropesville, Texas, reports NWS spotter.
9:21 p.m. CDT Saturday: Storm coming into Rogersville, Alabama:
9:16 p.m. CDT Saturday:3,100 El Paso Electric customers without service, the utility reports.
8:20 p.m. CDT Saturday:

Storm clouds moving in over Corinth, Mississippi (Photo/Niko Chills)
8:00 p.m. CDT Saturday: "A few rounds of dangerous thunderstorms are threatening northern Alabama and will continue to do so through the rest of the evening," Pindrock said.

7:29 p.m. CDT Saturday:
7:23 p.m. CDT Saturday: "The greatest threat for severe weather through the late evening hours will occur from southeastern Colorado and eastern New Mexico points east to southern Oklahoma and northern Texas over into the Mississippi Valley," said AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Erik Pindrock.
7:18 p.m. CDT Saturday:
7:05 p.m. CDT Saturday: Tennis ball-sized hail near Tucumcari, New Mexico reports NWS spotter.
6:55 p.m. CDT Saturday:
6:46 p.m. CDT Saturday: About 1.45 inches of rain fell in about four hours in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, reports NWS spotter.
6:30 p.m. CDT Saturday:
5:54 p.m. CDT Saturday: Emergency management reported a funnel cloud in Red Bud, Illinois around 5:49 p.m. CDT.
5:12 p.m. CDT Saturday: Possible tornado damage in St. Peters, Missouri.
4:34 p.m. CDT Saturday: Reports of downed trees and power outages throughout the community of Murray, Kentucky according to the emergency manager.
4:25 p.m. CDT Saturday: Funnel cloud near Neelyville, MO around 4:17 p.m. CDT emergency management reports.
4:19 p.m. CDT Saturday: Golf ball-sized hail reported near Union City, Tennessee according to NWS spotter.
3:46 p.m. CDT Saturday:
3:40 p.m. CDT Saturday: At 3:35 p.m. CDT, an NWS spotter reported a tornado on the ground near Clayton, Tennessee moving towards Union City.
3:11 p.m. CDT Saturday:
3:03 p.m. CDT Saturday: Quarter-sized hail in Rosita, Colorado reports NWS spotter.
2:37 p.m. CDT Saturday:: Many roads washed out across western Adams County west of highway 148 and north of highway 34 near Carbon, Iowa, reports emergency manager.
2:27 p.m. CDT Saturday: A thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado is tracking toward New Madrid, Missouri.

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