7 hours Ago By Eleanor Tolbert
After a weekend of deadly storms, two states will see another battering this upcoming week. Residents of Texas and Oklahoma spent their Easter weekend keeping cover from heavy rain, large hail and tornadoes. There were 17 reported events on Easter Sunday, including one that inflicted damage in an Oklahoma town that was ravaged by a tornado in March.
The threat of severe weather will return this week for the same areas hit this weekend. According to FOX Forecast Center , the weather will return Tuesday afternoon in West Texas and western Oklahoma. 'My dad killed my rapist on live TV - but I wouldn't trade my life for anything' Joe Biden accused of photoshopping fail as he shares rare picture of family FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin said: "I have to be honest, this is a classic setup.
It’s a dryline setup. So, if you’re a local, you know exactly what we’re talking about." The National Weather Service defines a dry line as a boundary separating moist and dry air masses.
It is an important factor in severe weather frequency in the Great Plains. Merwin continued: "This is a setup where you start to see these towering thunderstorms that build up in the afternoon. And the afternoon heat is part of the instability.
Once that dryline sets up, the thunderstorms are igniting, and they progress out towards the east. “But, guess what? The dryline retreats back in the overnight, and you reload for the next day." DON'T MISS.
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Those areas include Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland and Odessa in Texas, as well as Hutchinson in Kansas. Over the weekend, two people died in the hazardous weather. There were reports of flooding in several cities.
One car in Moore, Oklahoma, was swept away under a bridge, and police said they were able to rescue some people, but a woman and 12-year-old boy were found dead. While heavy rain was subsiding in Texas and Oklahoma by late Sunday afternoon, additional heavy rain is expected across parts of the Plains this week. With streams already swollen and the ground saturated, that leaves the area at risk of additional flooding.
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