US weather forecast: Tornado alert issued in parts of Florida Panhandle, Alabama, and Georgia
Tornado Watch has been issued for a significant portion of the Florida Panhandle, southeastern Alabama, and parts of southern Georgia on Saturday, coinciding with the passage of a cold front through the area. This watch encompasses areas such as Panama City and Tallahassee in Florida, as well as Valdosta and Savannah in Georgia. The severe storms have the potential to unleash gusts of up to 70 mph and produce large hail, in addition to posing a tornado threat, as per a report in Fox Weather.
In South Carolina, heavy downpours coinciding with high tides led to Flash Flood Warnings being issued in Charleston, where storms dumped close to 2 inches of rainfall within a span of three hours.
Recently, severe storms that appear to have spawned a rare February tornado outbreak sent sleeping Midwesterners scrambling for safety and left a trail of damage and power outages across four Great Lakes states, including the Chicago suburbs, ending a spell of summerlike, sometimes record temperatures.
Nearly two dozen confirmed or suspected tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio littered roads with fallen trees and branches, shredded homes and barns, and scattered debris across city and countryside alike. No injuries were reported, despite the storm's timing at night.
In Michigan's Grand Blanc Township, near Flint, a confirmed tornado — only the second on record for February in that part of the state — damaged subdivisions, uprooted trees and broke gas lines in
