Tornadoes, Heavy Rain and Flooding for Eastern U.S.

Four Tornadoes Overnight in Arkansas; Forecasters Concerned About Flooding From Melting Snow

By NED POTTER
March 11, 2010

At least it's not snowing anymore. The unusually-harsh winter of 2010 is giving way to spring -- which brings the problems of rain, flooding, and in some places, tornadoes.

Eight states report wind damage, hail and flooding.

Today a cold front swung from the Southeast toward the Eastern Seaboard, causing tornadoes in Arkansas late Wednesday, including one that tracked across much of the state, killing one person.

There was a threat of tornadoes today in Florida, from Tampa Bay to the Orlando area, and parts of Alabama got 7 inches of rain.

Now the front is moving toward the Northeast.

"In central New York, northeastern Pennsylvania and up into central New England, we're looking at a couple of feet of snow melting very quickly," said Mike Sowko of the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center of NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. "We're going to have three, four, in some isolated places five inches of rain over the next few days. When you combine that with the melting snow, that's a lot of water that has to drain."


Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/tornadoes-flood-threat-thunderstorms-late-winter-storm-moves/story?id=10074658
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