The WMC Action News 5 First Alert Weather team is tracking the potential for strong to severe storms across the Mid-South this Wednesday evening into the early morning hours on Thursday.
This years forecast from CSU calls for 2020 to be a rather active season. This includes a forecast for 16 named tropical storms, 8 of them becoming hurricanes, and four of those storms reaching the destructive “major” hurricane category.
A cold front to our west will roll into the Mid-South around 4 pm and continue producing showers and storms through midnight tonight, starting in Eastern Arkansas and then moving into West Tennessee and North Mississippi.
More than $1 million in disaster loans have been approved by the U. S. Small Business Administration for Tennessee businesses and residents with losses resulting from the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding March 3, 2020.
There will be a chance for strong to severe thunderstorms in the Mid-South late Thursday night into early Friday morning. As a cold front pushes into the area, it will interact with a warm, unstable air mass.
The last full moon of winter is going to occur Monday night. March’s supermoon, called the Super Worm Moon, will be the second closest of the three full supermoons of 2020.
Many in the Music City are still recovering after tornadoes hit middle Tennessee. City leaders plan to give another update concerning the recovery efforts Nashville has made so far.
While the Shelby County Election Commission reports no major issues with voting Tuesday, in Nashville some precincts had to be consolidated because of the tornado and polls opened late.
On Feb. 5, 2008, we were under the gun here in the Mid-South. There was a huge and deadly tornado outbreak not only for us in the Mid-South but also for much of the southern United States. This outbreak is known as the “Super Tuesday Outbreak."
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency declared a level three state of emergency for Tennessee after deadly tornadoes ripped through Nashville and Cookeville early Tuesday morning.
Homeowners can use MSBOC online resources at www.msboc.us to check the license status of the contractor they plan to hire, and to get tips on wise repair and improvement choices.
Nichole Lawrence with TDOT says crews will treat elevated surfaces late Thursday afternoon using a brine mixture. This includes bridges, overpasses and the flyover.
A strong low-pressure system brought an intense line of rain and storms to parts of the Mid-South early Saturday morning, including damaging wind and the chance reports of isolated tornadoes. We declared Saturday a First Alert Weather Day.
Strong south winds will bring moisture into the region from the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week. A potent low-pressure system will push an intense line of rain and storms through Friday night into Saturday morning.
You may have heard of lake effect snow, which is very common across the Great Lakes region, but have you ever heard of river effect snow? It happened Tuesday morning in the Mid-South.
The WMC Action News 5 First Alert Weather Team is tracking a low pressure system and associated cold front that will transport gulf moisture to the Mid-South.
Communities along the Mississippi River are still trying to recover from historic 2019 flooding. Not all of them have clear directions for the path forward.
As recovery from Mississippi River flooding continues, some farmers are struggling with the reality of a devastating year. In the middle of harvest, one Mississippi community has a bleak forecast, with nature and politics bringing an unforgiving storm.
