Friday brings a tornado and damaging winds risk for millions, extreme fire danger in Texas and a blizzard in parts of the north-central U.S. AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno breaks down the triple threat of extreme weather.
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00:00We have a triple threat of weather on Friday.
00:03We begin in the Southwest Plains and West Texas where we're going to be looking at extreme
00:08fire danger on Friday.
00:09In fact, I'm convinced we're going to see rapidly spreading fires because of winds gusting
00:15to between 70 and 80 miles per hour Friday afternoon.
00:19Those same winds will also cause dust storms in western and central Texas.
00:24And I think the wind is going to be strong enough that Dallas will likely have ground
00:28stops at the airport because of those wind gusts in the afternoon.
00:33On the northern side of the storm, a blizzard will unfold Friday night into Saturday across
00:39eastern parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and northern Minnesota.
00:43Grand Forks, also Fargo, will get at least a half a foot of snow and that snow will be
00:49blown around Friday night.
00:51Meanwhile, we have the high risk of severe weather that does include the city of St.
00:56Louis.
00:57We're looking at hundreds of reports of damaging winds Friday afternoon, Friday night, and
01:03we also believe there will be tornadoes on the ground as we get toward Friday afternoon,
01:09Friday night, especially from northern Arkansas, southern parts of Missouri, and the downstate
01:14Illinois.
01:15And oh, by the way, the tornado risk continues on Saturday across the central Gulf Coast
01:21states.
01:22Extreme weather Friday into Saturday.