A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South killed at least six people in central Alabama and another in Georgia and knocked out power to tens of thousands on Thursday, while a tornado spawned by the system shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma.

In Autauga County, Alabama, which is 41 miles northeast of Selma, at least six fatalities were confirmed and an estimated 40 to 50 homes were damaged or destroyed by storms that cut a strip across the county, said Ernie Baggett, the county’s emergency management director.

Several mobile homes were launched into the air and at least 12 people were injured severely enough to be taken to hospitals by emergency responders, Baggett told The Associated Press. He said crews were focused Thursday night on cutting through downed trees to look for people who may need help.

“It really did a good bit of damage. This is the worst that I’ve seen here in this county,” Baggett said.

In Georgia, a passenger died when a tree fell on a vehicle in Jackson during the storm, Butts County Coroner Lacey Prue said. In the same county southeast of Atlanta, the storm appeared to have knocked a freight train off its tracks, officials said.

Officials in Griffin, south of Atlanta, told local news outlets that multiple people had been trapped inside an apartment complex after trees fell on it. Firefighters also cut a Griffin man loose who had been pinned for hours under a tree that fell on his house. A high school was damaged, and students were held at four middle schools for parents to pick up after officials determined it was unsafe to run buses. The city of Griffin imposed a curfew from 10 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday.

School systems in at least six Georgia counties on the southern fringes of metro Atlanta canceled classes on Friday. Those systems enroll a total of 90,000 students.

Nationwide, there were 33 separate tornado reports Thursday from the National Weather Service as of Thursday evening, with a handful of tornado warnings still in effect in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. However, the reports were not yet confirmed and some of them could later be classified as wind damage after assessments are done in coming days.

In Selma, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement, brick buildings collapsed, cars were on their side and traffic poles were strewn about in the downtown area. Plumes of thick, black smoke rose over the city from a fire burning. It wasn't immediately known whether the storm caused the blaze.

A few blocks past the city’s famed Edmund Pettus Bridge, an enduring symbol of the voting rights movement, buildings were crumpled by the storm and trees blocked roadways.

Selma Mayor James Perkins said no fatalities have been reported, but first responders were continuing to assess the damage.

“We have a lot of downed power lines," he said. "There is a lot of danger on the streets.”

With widespread power outages, the Selma City Council held a meeting on the sidewalk, using lights from cellphones, to declare a state of emergency. A high school was opened as a shelter, officials said.

Mattie Moore was among Selma residents who picked up boxed meals offered by a charity downtown.

“Thank God that we’re here. It’s like something you see on TV,” Moore said of all the destruction.

A city of about 18,000 residents, Selma is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of the Alabama capital city of Montgomery. It was a flashpoint of the civil rights movement and where Alabama state troopers viciously attacked Black people advocating for voting rights as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.

After the tornado passed, Krishun Moore emerged from her home to the sound of children crying and screaming. She and her mother encouraged the kids to keep screaming until they found the two of them on top of the roof of a damaged apartment. She estimated the kids were about 1 and 4 years old. Both of them are OK, she said through Facebook messenger.

Malesha McVay drove parallel to the tornado with her family. She said it got less than a mile from her home before suddenly turning.

“We stopped and we prayed. We followed it and prayed,” she said. “It was a 100% God thing that it turned right before it hit my house.”

She took video of the giant twister, which would turn black as it swept away home after home.

“It would hit a house, and black smoke would swirl up,” she said. “It was very terrifying.”

About 40,000 customers were without power in Alabama on Thursday night, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide. In Georgia, about 86,000 customers were without electricity after the storm system carved a path across a tier of counties just south of Atlanta.

The storm hit in Griffin, south of Atlanta, with winds damaging a shopping area, local news outlets reported. A Hobby Lobby store partially lost its roof, and at least one car was flipped in the parking lot of a nearby Walmart.

Damage was also reported west of downtown Atlanta in Douglas County and Cobb County, with Cobb County government posting a damage report showing a crumbled cinder block wall at a warehouse in suburban Austell.

In Kentucky, the National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed that an EF-1 tornado struck Mercer County and said crews were surveying damage in a handful of other counties.

Three factors — a natural La Nina weather cycle, warming of the Gulf of Mexico likely related to climate change and a decades-long shift of tornadoes from the west to east — came together to make Thursday’s tornado outbreak unusual and damaging, said Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University who studies tornado trends.

The La Nina, a cooling of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide, was a factor in making a wavy jet stream that brought a cold front through, Gensini said. But that’s not enough for a tornado outbreak. What’s needed is moisture.

Normally the air in the Southeast is fairly dry this time of year but the dew point was twice what is normal, likely because of unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, which is likely influenced by climate change. That moisture hit the cold front and everything was in place, Gensini said.

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Associated Press writers Alina Hartounian in Phoenix, Arizona; Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Seth Borenstein in Denver; Rebecca Reynolds in Louisville, Kentucky; and photographer Butch Dill in Selma, Alabama, contributed to this report.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —

A monster storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Friday, spawning deadly tornadoes that shredded homes and shopping centers, overturned vehicles and uprooted trees as people raced for shelter.

At least one person was killed and two dozen or more were hurt, some critically, in the Little Rock area, authorities said. The town of Wynne in northeastern Arkansas was also devastated, and officials reported two dead there, along with destroyed homes and people trapped in the debris.

There were more confirmed twisters in Iowa, damaging hail fell in Illinois and wind-whipped grass fires blazed in Oklahoma, as the storm system threatened a broad swath of the country home to some 85 million people.

The destructive weather came as President Joe Biden toured the aftermath of a deadly tornado that struck in Mississippi a week ago and promised the government would help the area recover.

The Little Rock tornado tore first through neighborhoods in the western part of the city and shredded a small shopping center that included a Kroger grocery store. It then crossed the Arkansas River into North Little Rock and surrounding cities, where widespread damage was reported to homes, businesses and vehicles.

Video below: Firefighters assess damage after Little Rock tornado

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center in Little Rock was operating at a mass casualty level and preparing for up to 20 patients, spokesperson Leslie Taylor said. Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock officials told KATV in the afternoon that 21 people had checked in there with tornado-caused injuries, including five in critical condition.

Mayor Frank Scott Jr., who announced that he was requesting assistance from the National Guard, tweeted in the evening that officials were aware of 24 people who had been hospitalized in the city but no fatalities at the moment.

"Property damage is extensive and we are still responding,” he said.

Resident Niki Scott took cover in the bathroom after her husband called to say a tornado was headed her way. She could hear glass shattering as the tornado roared past, and emerged afterward to find that her house was one of the few on her street that didn’t have a tree fall on it.

“It’s just like everyone says. It got really quiet, then it got really loud,” Scott said afterward, as chainsaws roared and sirens blared in the area.

Outside a Little Rock Guitar Center, five people were captured on video aiming their phones at the swirling sky. “Uh, no, that’s an actual tornado, y’all. It’s coming this way,” Red Padilla, a singer and songwriter in the band Red and the Revelers, said in the video.

Padilla told The Associated Press that he and five bandmates sheltered inside the store for around 15 minutes with over a dozen others while the tornado passed. The power went out, and they used the flashlights on their phones to see.

“It was real tense,” Padilla said.

At Clinton National Airport, passengers and workers sheltered temporarily in bathrooms.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency and said there was “significant damage” in the central part of the state.

“Praying for all those who were and remain in the path of this storm,” she tweeted. “Arkansans must continue to stay weather aware as storms are continuing to move through.”

Also hit was the town of Wynne, about 50 miles west of Memphis, Tennessee, which Sanders said saw “widespread damage” from a tornado.

Video above: Possible tornado in Little Rock, Arkansas

City Councilmember Lisa Powell Carter told AP by phone that Wynne was without power and roads were full of debris.

“I’m in a panic trying to get home, but we can’t get home,” she said. “Wynne is so demolished. ... There’s houses destroyed, trees down on streets.”

Police Chief Richard Dennis told WHBQ-TV that the city suffered “total destruction” and multiple people were trapped.

Nearly 70,000 customers in Arkansas lost power, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages.

About 32,000 were without electricity in neighboring Oklahoma, where where wind gusts of up to 60 mph fueled fast-moving grass fires. People were urged to evacuate homes in far northeast Oklahoma City, and troopers shut down portions of Interstate 35 near the suburb of Edmond.

More outages were reported in Kansas, Missouri and Texas.

Multiple tornadoes were reported moving through parts of eastern Iowa, with sporadic damage to homes, barns and other buildings.

One tornado veered just west of Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa, which cancelled a watch party at an on-campus arena for the women’s basketball Final Four game. Video from KCRG-TV showed toppled power poles and roofs ripped off an apartment building in the suburb of Coralville and significantly damaged homes in the city of Hills.

In Illinois, Ben Wagner, chief radar operator for the Woodford County Emergency Management Agency, said hail broke windows on cars and buildings in the area of Roanoke, northeast of Peoria.

Fire crews were battling several blazes near El Dorado, Kansas, and some residents were asked to evacuate, including about 250 elementary school children who were relocated to a high school.

Massive storms brewing over at least 15 states in the Midwest and southern U.S. on Friday had meteorologists urging people to brace for dangerous weather including tornadoes, saying the conditions are similar to those a week ago that unleashed a devastating twister that killed at least 21 people in Mississippi.

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center forecast called for an unusually large outbreak of thunderstorms with the potential to cause hail, damaging wind gusts and strong tornadoes that could move for long distances over the ground.

Such “intense supercell thunderstorms " are only expected to become more common, especially in Southern states, as temperatures rise around the world.

At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, a traffic management program was put into effect that caused arriving planes to be delayed by nearly two hours on average, WFLD-TV reported.

Authorities in Belvidere, Illinois, also reported injuries after the Apollo Theater roof collapsed during a tornado.

Last Friday night, a vicious tornado in Mississippi killed at least 21 people, injured dozens and flattened entire blocks as it carved a path of destruction for more than an hour. About 2,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

The toll was especially steep in western Mississippi's Sharkey County, where 13 people were killed in a county of 3,700 residents. Winds of up to 200 mph barreled through the rural farming town of Rolling Fork, reducing homes to piles of rubble, flipping cars and toppling the town’s water tower.

Gensini said Friday’s atmospheric setup is similar to the conditions that were present during Mississippi’s deadly storm.

Video below: Little Rock tornado damage

The hazardous forecast is a result of strong southerly winds transporting copious amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico north, where they will interact with the strengthening storm system.

The weather service is forecasting another batch of intense storms next Tuesday in the same general area as last week. At least the first 10 days of April will be rough, Accuweather meteorologist Brandon Buckingham said earlier this week.

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Associated Press writers Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Harm Venhuizenin in Madison, Wisconsin, Isabella O'Malley in Philadelphia, Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington, and Michael Goldberg in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this report.

More than 3,700 flights in and out of the East Coast are already canceled Friday, ahead of the major winter storm expected Saturday.

The Weather Channel is forecasting Winter Storm Kenan will bring up to two feet of snow in some areas, including Boston.

As of Friday afternoon, FlightAware reported 94% of flights out of Boston Logan International were canceled.

Boston Logan is a hub for JetBlue and Delta.

Rhode Island T.F. Green International out of Providence, R.I. had the same number of cancelations.

LaGuardia Airport in New York followed close behind with 93% of flights canceled.

Delta, JetBlue and United Airlines have issued travel waivers to passengers affected by the East Coast storm.

They can rebook their flights without paying the fare difference.

Amtrak has also canceled several Saturday train service lines, including routes between Boston and New York, and Washington, D.C. and Boston.

Service between Boston and New York will be limited.

Amtrak said it will waive change and cancelation fees.

Snow is expected to taper off by Sunday morning in much of the Northeast, the Weather Channel reports.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced Saturday that six people were killed at an Amazon warehouse that collapsed Friday night.

"This is a tragic day in Illinois history," Pritzker said.

The warehouse is in Edwardsville, where a tornado touched down around 8:30 Friday night.

Edwardsville Fire Chief James Whiteford said the rescue operation at the warehouse has concluded. He said crews are now focused on recovery efforts.

"Through our efforts so far, we identified 45 personnel who made it out of the building safely," he said. "One who had to be airlifted to a regional hospital for treatment and six fatalities."

Amazon CEO Dave Clark offered condolences to those impacted by the storms.

"We’re continuing to provide support to our employees and partners in the area and across the communities affected by the storms," he said in a tweet. "We also want to thank all of the first responders for their ongoing efforts on the scene."

The severe weather left a trail of damage across the region.

Numerous other states reported tornadoes Friday night and Saturday morning. At least 70 people were killed when a tornado hit the southwestern Kentucky community of Mayfield.

President Joe Biden addressed the nation Saturday. He pledged the federal government's full support to help those affected by the severe weather.

The calendar said December but the warm moist air screamed of springtime. Add an eastbound storm front guided by a La Nina weather pattern into that mismatch and it spawned tornadoes that killed dozens over five U.S. states.

Tornadoes in December are unusual, but not unheard of. But the ferocity and path length of Friday night's tornadoes likely put them in a category of their own, meteorologists say. One of the twisters likely broke a nearly 100-year-old record for how long a tornado stayed on the ground in a path of destruction, experts said.

“One word: remarkable; unbelievable would be another,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini. “It was really a late spring type of setup in in the middle of December.”

Warm weather was a crucial ingredient in this tornado outbreak, but whether climate change is a factor is not quite as clear, meteorologists say.

Scientists say figuring out how climate change is affecting the frequency of tornadoes is complicated and their understanding is still evolving. But they do say the atmospheric conditions that give rise to such outbreaks are intensifying in the winter as the planet warms. And tornado alley is shifting farther east away from the Kansas-Oklahoma area and into states where Friday's killers hit.

Here's a look at what's known about Friday's tornado outbreak and the role of climate change in such weather events.

WHAT CAUSES A TORNADO?

Tornadoes are whirling, vertical air columns that form from thunderstorms and stretch to the ground. They travel with ferocious speed and lay waste to everything in their path.

Thunderstorms occur when denser, drier cold air is pushed over warmer, humid air, conditions scientists call atmospheric instability. As that happens, an updraft is created when the warm air rises. When winds vary in speed or direction at different altitudes — a condition known as wind shear — the updraft will start to spin.

These changes in winds produce the spin necessary for a tornado. For especially strong tornadoes, changes are needed in both the wind’s speed and direction.

“When considerable variation in wind is found over the lowest few thousand feet of the atmosphere, tornado-producing ‘supercell thunderstorms’ are possible,” said Paul Markowski, professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. “That’s what we had yesterday.”

There's usually a lot of wind shear in the winter because of the big difference in temperature and air pressure between the equator and the Arctic, Gensini said.

But usually, there's not a lot of instability in the winter that's needed for tornadoes because the air isn't as warm and humid, Gensini said. This time there was.

WHAT CONDITIONS LED TO STORMS OF THIS SCALE?

A few factors, which meteorologists will continue to study.

Spring-like temperatures across much of the Midwest and South in December helped bring the warm, moist air that helped form thunderstorms. Some of this is due to La Nina, which generally brings warmer than normal winter temperatures to the Southern U.S. But scientists also expect atypical, warm weather in the winter to become more common as the planet warms.

“The worst-case scenario happened. Warm air in the cold season, middle of the night,” said John Gordon, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Louisville, Kentucky.

Once the storm formed, exceptionally strong wind shear appears to have prevented the tornadoes from dissipating, experts say. Tornadoes are thought to die off when thunderstorm updrafts lose energy.

Tornadoes typically lose energy in a matter of minutes, but in this case it was hours, Gensini said. That’s partly the reason for the exceptionally long path of Friday's storm, going more than 200 miles or so, he said. The record was 219 miles and was set by a tornado that struck three states in 1925. Gensini thinks this one will surpass it once meteorologists finish analyzing it.

“In order to get a really long path length, you have to have a really fast moving storm. This storm was moving well over 50 miles per hour for a majority of its life,” Gensini said. That's not the speed of the winds, but of the overall storm movement.

“You’re talking about highway-speed storm motions,” Gensini said.

HOW RELATED IS CLIMATE CHANGE TO TORNADO OUTBREAKS?

It’s complicated. Scientists are still trying to sort out the many conflicting factors about whether human-caused climate change is making tornadoes more common — or even more intense. About 1,200 twisters hit the U.S. each year — though that figure can vary — according to the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. No other country sees as many.

Attributing a specific storm like Friday's to the effects of climate change remains very challenging. Less than 10% of severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes, which makes drawing conclusions about climate change and the processes leading up to them tricky, said Harold Brooks, a tornado scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.

Scientists have observed changes taking place to the basic ingredients of a thunderstorm, however, as the planet warms. Gensini says in the aggregate, extreme storms are “becoming more common because we have a lot warmer air masses in the cool season that can support these types of severe weather outbreaks.”

The U.S. is likely to see more tornadoes occur in the winter, Brooks said, as national temperatures rise above the long-term average. Fewer events will take place in the summer, he said.

Furtado of the University of Oklahoma said tornado alley, a term used to describe where many twisters hit the U.S., has shifted eastward into the Mississippi River Valley. That shift is because of increases in temperature, moisture and shear.

“Bottom line: The people in the Mississippi River Valley and Ohio River Valley are becoming increasingly vulnerable to more tornadic activity with time,” he said.

HILLSBORO, Ohio —

The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, has confirmed both an EF0 and an EF1 tornado touched down in Highland County, Ohio, early Saturday.

The first tornado in West Central Highland County dropped at approximately 12:53 a.m. and remained on the ground for 1.9 miles.

The National Weather Service described the path the storm took, "The first tornado to occur in Highland County started near the intersection of Danville Road and Roush Road... The tornado then crossed Danville Road, heading east down Roush Road."

The NWS went on to say, "The circulation weakened as it continued east along Roush Road and eventually dissipated east of Kesler Road."

This happened at an estimated time of 12:56 a.m.

The tornado packed peak winds of 80 mph and had a maximum width of 50 yards. As it progressed east, the circulation left a trail of damage.

The NWS stated, "Numerous trees were damaged on the west side of Danville Road along with some minor damage to the home including roof damage and broken windows... The strongest damage was found at a residence on the north side of Roush Road where an outbuilding sustained roof damage. Multiple trees at the same property were also damaged or uprooted."

No fatalities or injuries were reported with this circulation.

This storm went on to recirculate and produce another tornado 3 to 5 miles northeast of Hillsboro in Highland County at approximately 1:03 a.m. The NWS shared, "Damage associated with the tornado began east of U.S. 62, north of Hillsboro and consisted of uprooted trees and large snapped limbs. The first structural damage was observed north of Selph Road near Lewis Lane where a large portion of roof covering was removed from an outbuilding."

Additional tree damage was found along Lewis Lane. From here, approximately 1 mile of unreachable damage due to lack of roads stretched between Lewis Lane and Kincaid Road to the east.

The National Weather Service went on to say, "A structure on the east side of Kincaid Road sustained sidewall damage associated with a garage door failure. Further south along Kincaid Road, a considerable amount of trees were snapped and uprooted consistent with straight-line winds."

The tornado continued traveling east, crossing State Route 138 causing tree and minor structural damage. The NWS shared, "the most intense damage occurred along Morrow Road. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. Several outbuildings received considerable damage." The tornado weakened at approximately 1:08 a.m. with the final damage occurring near Fall Creek.

No fatalities or injuries were reported.

This tornado had maximum winds of 95 mph and a path width of 70 yards. It was on the ground for 3.1 miles.

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WLWT, FACEBOOK PAGE. ALL RIGHT BACK TO OUR CHIEF METEOROLOGIST KEVIN ROBINSON THE FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FORECAST AND IT’S LOOKING A HECK OF A LOT BETTER THAN ITAS W AT THIS TIME LAST NIGHT. YEAH. IT REALLY IS, YOU KNOW, ALTHOUGH WE HAVEN’T SEEN MUCH OF THEUN S TODAY THINGS HAVE REALLY WORKED OUT IN OUR FAVOR IN THAT WAY WITHOUT THEE W WEREN’T ABLE TO GET UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO GET STORMS AND AS A RESULT, WE’RE KIND OF IN THAT PEAK WINDOW WHEN WE WERE MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER. SO THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT IT LOOKS LIKE WE’RE REAYLL DODGING A BULLET HERE WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. YOU CAN SEE THERE’S NOT A LOT HAPPENING AT THE MOMENT THE RAIN THAT WE’VE HAD OFF AND ONHE T GLOOMY SKIES WE’VE HAD OFTEN ON THROUGHOUT THE DAY BASICALLY ACTING LIKE A BLANKET ON THE ATMOSPHERE AND KEEPING EVERYTHING REALLY SETTLED DOWN AN D NOW ALLOWING ANY EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT, SO THAT SAID THERE’S SOME HEAVY RAIN OUT HERE BETWEEN MAYSVILLE OVER TOWARDS WEST UNION SCOOTGIN ALONG THE OHIO RIVER BETWEEN MANCHESTER AND WRIGHTSVILLE, BUT THA’S G'ENERALLY ABOUT IT SOME OF THOSE SHOWERS TRAIL BACK TOWARDS THE MAIZELIT COMMUNITY AS FAR NORTH AS PEEBLES AND THEN ON UP THROUGH PARTS, ISLAND COUNTY SOME LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS OUT THERE AROUND THE METRO WE ARE CURRENTLY RAIN FREE AND THIS IS PART OF THAT DEVELOPING WINDOW. I THINK WE HEAV FOR SEVERAL HOURS TONIGHT BEFORE WE SEE ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN DEVELOP AROUND THE AREA. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN OUR SEVERE WEATHER RIGHT HERE. IT STARTED TO GO UP WHERE THERE WERE SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS IN INDIANA AND YOU HAD THE SUN OUT BUTNC OE THAT ACTIVITY MOVED, ARE LESS FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT. IT’S COMPLETELY FIZZLED. AND BASICALLY THAT’S THE CASE WITH THE LITTLE SPRINKLES AND SHOWERS THAT WERE OUT THERE SO I DON’T SEE MUCH OF AN IMPACT TONIGHT TO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ACTION FROM LIGHTNING OR EVEN ANY SEVERE WEATHER COMPONENTS OUT THERE. NOW THAT SAID WE ARE NOT DONE WITH THE RAIN AND THEY’RE VERY WELL COULD BEOR ME THUNDER AND LIGHTNING LATER ON TONIGHT, BUT IT WON’T BE OFHE T SEVERE VARIETY. AND AGAIN, HERE’S THE KEY REASON WHY WE ARE NOT DEALING WITH SEVERE WEATHER AT THE MOMENT. JUST NOT UNSTABLE ENOUGH. THERE SO THAT’S WHYT I ALSO WE’VE BEEN DROPPED OUT OF THE SLIGHT RISK DOWN TO A MARGINAL RISK, AND YOU COULD ALMOST DROP IT EVEN LOWER THAN THAT AT THIS POINT. IT WOULD APPEAR SO I ACTLLUAY THINK WE’VE GOT SOME DECENT FOOTBALL WEATHER OUT THERE. I CAN’T SAY THERE WON’T BE ANY PASSING SHOWER OR DOWNPOUR, BUT I TNKHI FOR THE GAMES THEMSELVES AS LONG AS THEY WRAP UP BEFORE ABOUT NINE OR TEN O’CLOCK. I THINK YOU’VE GOT MOSTLY CLOUD WEATHER CONDITIONS NOW, AFTER 9 OR 10 RAIN CHANCES WILL GO UP AND THEY’RE STILL MAYBE. THUNDER DAN LIGHTNING TO BE HAD. SO HERE WE GO. MOVING FORWARD NOTICE AS WE GET TOWARDS THE NINE O’CLOCK HOUR 10 RAIN BEGINS TO REDEVELOP ACRSOS THE AREA AGAIN. I’M NOT GOING TO RULE OUT A LITTLE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING BUT AT THIS POINT IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE SEVERE. THIS WOULD BE GOOD SOAKING RANGE WHEIL WE SLEEP TONIGHT AND THEN BY THE TIME THE SUN IS UP TOMORROW MORNING BY 7. AM IF NOT SOONER THE RAIN SHOULD BE MOVING OUT OF HERE. IT MAY TAKE US AEW F HOURS TO GET SOME SUN BACK SATURDAY, BUT SATURDAY LOOKS NICE CLEAR. CHILLY SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN WE’VE GOT A FANTASTIC SUNDAY COMING UP WITH LOTS OF SUNSHINE TO BE ENJOYED AROUND THE AREA. SO HERE’S A LIVE LOOK OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW IT’S TANGKI DAY, BUT WE’RE FINALLY STARTING TO SEE A FEW PEAKS AT THEUN S OUT THERE THIS AFTERNOON 70 OFFICIALLY HERE IN CINCINNATI. NOT A LOTF O RAIN AT THE AIRPORT. SOME FOLKS HAVE HAD A LITTLE MORE A LITTLE LESS DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 60S ARE RIGHT AROUND 70 DEGREES BECAUSE OF THE CLOUDS AND RAIN AND YOU KNOW WITH THAT IN MIND TEMPERATURES HDOL STEADY BEFORE MIDNIGHT, THEN WE’LL FALL BACK THROUGH THE 60S AND WE’LL WIND UP IN THE 50S BY MORNING. EVENTUALLY. WE’LL GET DOWN THE 52. SO LET’S SAY BETWEEN NOW AND ABTOU 9 OR 10 IT SHOULD BE RELATIVELY QUIET OUT THERE AFTER 10 O’CLOCK. I THINK RAIN CHANCES GO UP. AGAIN AREA WEID MAY HAVE A LITTLE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING THROWN IN WITH THAT 63 TOMORROW. THAT’S AT MIDNIGHT. THAT’S 63 WE’LL STRUGGLE TO GET BACK TO 60 TOMORROW AND WITH A CHILLY BREEZE DESPITE THE SUNSHINE. IT’LL BE A LITTLE BIT OF A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM 45 FOR A LOW TOMORROW NIGHT DRESS WARMF I YOU’RE HEADING TO FC CINCINNATI SOCCER, AND THEN IT LOOKS LIKE WELL CHILLITA SRT TO THE WEEK AT LEAST TEMPERATURE. EYES AT NIGHT

Severe weather chances remain low tonight

Severe weather chances remain low tonight thanks to earlier rain and clouds. We see times of heavy rain through the overnight.

Updated: 6:30 PM EDT Oct 15, 2021

Severe weather chances remain low tonight thanks to earlier rain and clouds. We see times of heavy rain through the overnight.

Severe weather chances remain low tonight thanks to earlier rain and clouds. We see times of heavy rain through the overnight.