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Deadly tornadoes and severe weather outbreak across parts of Mississippi and Alabama today, Apr 12th

A particularly dangerous weather setup has verified across Arklatex and Southeast US today, as widespread severe weather outbreak has occurred. The outbreak is still underway, but already brought significant damage to property in parts of Mississippi and Alabama, also the loss of lives.

Storm chasers were out chasing this particularly dangerous setup – violent and destructive wedge tornadoes have been reported:



https://twitter.com/BrandonCopicWx/status/1249447299924852739




https://twitter.com/weathertrevor/status/1249470938569216004

Radar scans of the destructive tornado while passing between Collins and Seminary:


Satellite animations of explosive supercell storms:



Significant damage has been reported in some town, unfortunatelly also resulted in at least 31 fatalities and numerous injured people:


https://www.facebook.com/lisa.l.mercier.5/videos/3173814885962539/



https://twitter.com/DualDoppler/status/1249463935939600384



See the primary forecast:

Dangerous severe weather and tornado outbreak likely across Louisiana into the Tennessee Valley and most of the Southeast US on the Easter Day – Sunday, Apr 12th


In the wake of the event, an intense cold outbreak is underway:

An *intense* Arctic cold outbreak spreads across much of the United States after the #Easter Weekend