This Storm Will Literally Affect Everyone…

Summary

Highlights

• Storm system expected to impact nearly the entire US with various weather threats. 🌪️
• Slight tornado threat in Texas and Oklahoma with considerable wind and hail risks. 🌩️
• Blizzards likely in the Midwest, bringing heavy snow and high winds. ❄️
• High wildfire risk due to dry conditions and gusty winds in parts of Texas. 🔥
• Prepare for drastic temperature changes and potential new storms on the horizon. 🌡️

Key Takeaways

• Brace yourselves for a storm impacting almost everyone across the US! 🌪️
• Watch out for tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds from Dallas to Kansas. 💨
• Blizzard warnings in the Midwest with potential for heavy snowfall! ❄️
• Wildfire risks are high in parts of Texas and New Mexico due to strong winds. 🔥
• Stay tuned and prepared for unexpected severe weather developments. 📻

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to the Major Storm System It's March 3rd, 2025, and a major storm system is approaching the United States, expected to impact everyone in some way. Over the next three days, the storm will bring a range of severe weather events, including blizzards, wildfires, and severe thunderstorms with straight-line damaging winds and flash floods. The chapter will delve deeply into each aspect of the storm, starting with a notable risk of severe weather stretching from Dallas.
• 00:30 - 01:30: Severe Weather Threat and Tornado Risks The chapter titled 'Severe Weather Threat and Tornado Risks' discusses weather predictions for areas ranging from Wichita Falls to Oklahoma City and into Southern Kansas. The primary concerns are related to hail and wind, but there is also a highlighted tornado threat in the Red River Valley, extending south from Oklahoma City towards the DFW Metro area. The storm prediction center has issued a 5% tornado risk, which the author believes is underestimated and explains why. Additionally, the tornado risk for the day has been upgraded to a 10% probability.
• 01:30 - 02:30: Sponsor Segment - Hungry Root The chapter introduces a sponsor segment featuring Hungry Root, described as an easy way to eat healthy meals. The speaker mentions their hectic schedules due to unpredictable weather patterns and family responsibilities, highlighting how Hungry Root acts as a personal shopper to alleviate the stress of planning meals.
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• 03:30 - 06:30: Discussion on Tornado Genesis and Risks The chapter discusses tornado genesis and the associated risks, starting with a brief mention of a sponsor, Hungryroot. The focus then shifts to a weather forecast for a storm expected to occur overnight. The discussion emphasizes significant forcing and the presence of very cool, dry air, which are key factors in the development and intensification of the storm.
• 06:30 - 07:30: Severe Thunderstorm Risks in the Deep South The chapter discusses the imminent risks of severe thunderstorms in the Deep South, particularly focusing on a predicted clash of moist air masses. The simulated radar forecasts an explosive storm event, expected to start late at night around 11:00 p.m. to midnight. This intense weather phenomenon is described with vibrant imagery, likening it to bombs going off, and is predicted to affect areas from Kansas to Oklahoma.
• 07:30 - 08:30: East Coast Weather Threats and Warnings The chapter discusses the potential weather threats and warnings specifically focusing on the East Coast. The transcript highlights severe weather patterns, particularly in Kansas and Oklahoma, with strong straight-line winds expected throughout the morning. The discussion also points out the favorable conditions for tornadoes in the region. A specific sounding from a southern cell near Alton, Oklahoma, is mentioned, indicating good conditions for tornado genesis around 1:00 a.m.
• 08:30 - 10:00: Nationwide Impact of Wind and Weather Systems The chapter discusses the atmospheric conditions contributing to storm development, focusing on storm relative helicity and wind shear that enhance storm rotation, indicating a favorable environment for tornadoes. However, the linear mode of storms suggests fewer isolated supercells, and a stable layer near the surface presents a challenge for tornado formation.
• 10:00 - 13:00: Blizzard Conditions and Snow Forecasts The chapter discusses the potential for tornadoes in specific regions as storms move through areas like Oklahoma, Kansas, and near the DFW Metro. It explains that the environment is favorable for tornadoes, with a decent chance of occurrence. However, as the storm moves east, the likelihood of tornadoes decreases. The chapter emphasizes the importance of having a way to receive weather alerts and warnings, particularly in Oklahoma City.
• 13:00 - 13:30: Wildfire Risks in Texas and New Mexico This chapter discusses the risk of severe thunderstorms in several regions, including Tulsa, Dallas, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. It highlights a significant threat expected on Tuesday, with the Storm Prediction Center predicting an enhanced risk of severe weather extending from Southern Arkansas to Louisiana and into South Central Mississippi. A slight risk area covers Arkansas and Alabama. The chapter emphasizes that this is expected to be a significant weather event.
• 13:30 - 15:30: Long-term Weather Outlook and Predictions The chapter discusses the severe weather threat in the Mississippi River Valley, focusing on the possibility of damaging winds reaching over 80 mph. Additionally, there's a 10% hatched risk of significant tornadoes in Louisiana and Mississippi, necessitating a heightened state of awareness. Despite the concerns, various limiting factors may mitigate the tornado risk, particularly in the Deep South.
• 15:30 - 14:30: Conclusion and Future Weather Updates The chapter discusses the unpredictability of weather events and emphasizes that while it is difficult to hyper-analyze convection models such as the HR model, surprises should always be expected. Despite the complex storm mode making tornado genesis challenging, the presence of favorable conditions means that tornado formation is still possible. It suggests that tornadoes are most likely to occur further south, where the storm line appears more broken up.

This Storm Will Literally Affect Everyone… Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 it's Monday March 3rd 2025 and we've got a major storm system on the way that's pretty much going to affect everyone in the United States in some way over the next 3 days and it's already starting right now I we're going to have everything from blizzards to wildfires to severe weather StraightLine damaging winds flash floods you name it it's all on the table and we're going to dive very deeply into every aspect of this storm right now for you let's start off on the severe weather side where we do have a large slight risk of severe weather for tonight from Dallas to
• 00:30 - 01:00 Witchita Falls all the way up past Oklahoma City into Southern portions of Kansas this is mostly driven by a hail and wind threat but there is a tornado threat highlighted by the Storm Prediction Center little 5% probability area right here around the Red River Valley from Oklahoma City Point South almost down to the DFW Metro but I think this threat is actually a little bit underdone by the storm predictions Center here and let me tell you why by the way the day one risk that we were just talking about has been upgraded to a 10% probability here the tornado risk
• 01:00 - 01:30 is increasing we might go live tonight but before we keep talking about this crazy weather setup we've got to shout out today's awesome sponsor hungry root the easiest way to eat healthy y'all know my schedule gets crazy here at the weather house with all these wild weather patterns live streams and then I've got two crazy boys at home things get pretty hectic sometimes and the last thing on my mind is what's for dinner until it's time to eat dinner and that can be very stressful that's why I've been loving today's sponsor hungry root hungry root is like my personal shopper
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• 02:00 - 02:30 to hungryroot.com and use the code hul y' right here it is hungryroot.com code hall' Link in the top of the description I promise you're going to love it and super huge shout out to Hungry root for sponsoring this video it means a lot now let's get back into the forecast let's take a look at what the radar could look like tonight into the early morning hours tomorrow as the storm gets going on the severe weather thr something that we've been talking about a lot leading up to this storm is the significant forcing that we're going to have the very cool dry air that's going to be
• 02:30 - 03:00 racing up against the moist air and you can see this so clearly on the simulated radar here there's going to be a moment where those air masses uh meet and there's just enough forcing that leads to a literal explosion of storms early in the morning as we go into the day tomorrow maybe I I think that the time for initiation is going to be right around 11:00 p.m. to midnight if you're watching the radar around this time you're literally going to see something that looks like bombs going off over here in Kansas down into Oklahoma everything's going to can geal uh pretty
• 03:00 - 03:30 quickly into a linear mode meaning that we're going to have strong StraightLine damaging winds racing across Kansas and Oklahoma all through the morning but there's also a very interesting thing here that I'm seeing right when the storms first pop up there's a really favorable parameter space in place for tornadoes check out this sounding that we pulled from the southernmost cell there near lton Oklahoma right around initiation around 1:00 a.m. or so this is a really good sounding for tornado Genesis we've got a very sharp curve in
• 03:30 - 04:00 our photograph here indicating that we've got a lot of storm relative helicity or Shear in the air that allows for the storms to rotate we're going to have uh plenty of Cape lots of thunderstorm fuel here and everything looks quite favorable for tornadoes other than the linear mode of storms it doesn't look like we're going to have a lot of isolated discret supercells and there is a little bit of a warm nose here a little bit of a stable layer near the surface that the storms will have to battle through to produce tornadoes but I've seen storm systems like this
• 04:00 - 04:30 produce tornadoes before and the environment stays quite favorable as the storms go through Oklahoma and Kansas and even uh maybe even for a brief period of time there's going to be a decent chance for a tornado or two down near the DFW Metro and actually the farther east it goes the less favorable the tornado situation becomes at least in terms of what we're seeing through this model but yeah I would definitely have a way of getting weather alerts tonight make sure you have a way of getting warnings in Oklahoma City wiah
• 04:30 - 05:00 maybe even over into Tulsa Dallas of course and then the storms will be making it into Fort Smith Arkansas for example early in the morning tomorrow this is about 7 or 8:00 a.m. here and then the threat shifts over to Tuesday right where according to the Storm Prediction Center we have our biggest day for severe thunderstorms we got an enhanced risk from Southern Arkansas down into Louisiana over into much of South Central Mississippi slight risk covers all of Arkansas all of Alabama essentially this is definitely going to be a big day I think that the biggest
• 05:00 - 05:30 threat on this day is going to be the damaging winds we've got a really good chance of seeing 80 mph plus winds with some of these storms as they Race Across the Mississippi River Valley I think everybody needs to be aware of that and there is a tornado threat out there in fact the Storm Prediction Center has a 10% hatched risk of maybe some significant tornadoes in Louisiana and Mississippi and for that reason we will very likely be live tomorrow for this but there are a lot of limiting factors with this system that might keep the tornado threat at Bay now I want to make something very clear these Deep South
• 05:30 - 06:00 events are notorious for surprising us it's really not very smart to be hyper analyzing convection the HR model like this because anything can happen but this looks like a fairly messy storm mode and it's going to be hard for tornado Genesis to occur here but it's not going to be impossible and there's going to be enough favorable parameters in place to where if a storm does produce a tornado and it looks to me like it's that's going to be most likely down here the farther south you go where the line looks a little bit more broken up it is going to be capable of being a
• 06:00 - 06:30 big tornado so everybody in the enhanced risk area needs to be paying attention here especially after 2 p.m. this is when the storm's going to be crossing the Mississippi River this is when we might see some embedded supercells and some new supercells popping up around New Orleans by the way which this is Marty right we've got a big celebration going on down here and there's going to be some supercells flying around between 2: and 8:00 p.m. these could produce tornadoes and if not tornadoes then certainly large hail and damaging winds we need everybody to be aware of that but yeah the the tornado threat is less
• 06:30 - 07:00 obvious I think with this one versus the one tonight so the overall message I'm trying to present here is that everybody needs to be prepared for severe weather because even if we don't have a big tornado situation this is going to be a high impact storm for everyone involved just because of the Winds I wouldn't be surprised if we saw several considerable or destructive severe thunderstorm warnings and we saw widespread damage across the Deep South even if we don't see major tornadoes and the major tornado risk is still there storms will make it into Birmingham early in the
• 07:00 - 07:30 morning on Wednesday and then they're also going to race past Nashville and Knoxville the storms will be less impressive here but probably still somewhat severe by the time they get to Atlanta and mon Georgia but there is going to be a lull in the activity right after it crosses the appalachin mountains and then we do expect things to ramp up again the farther east it goes there is actually another severe weather threat on Wednesday over here along the east coast for about 70 million people from Baltimore all the way down to Tampa Florida the marginal
• 07:30 - 08:00 risk goes all the way up to Canada pretty much so lots of severe weather warnings are going to be going out on Wednesday but the main threat here is almost certainly going to be the damaging winds as that Squall line races through bottom line don't be scared be prepared I think there's definitely a tornado threat tomorrow and that's why we're going to be live but I think that everybody needs to be hyper aware of the damaging wind threat as well I don't want people to kind of stop paying attention to the storm if there's not a lot of tornado warnings which there probably will be even if we don't see discreet supercells there will be lots
• 08:00 - 08:30 of opportunities for spin up tornadoes and those can cause damage too now at the beginning of this video I said this storm is going to affect everyone and boy isn't that true literally nobody in the Continental us is going to get away with not feeling at least a breeze as a result of this storm but most of us are going to deal with some moderately impactful winds it all starts today as the wind start rolling down the Rockies into the Front Range here off of Colorado New Mexico into the panhandle
• 08:30 - 09:00 of Texas we're going to see some maybe 50 to 60 mph wind gusts this afternoon that's going to pose a wildfire risk look at how quickly the winds kind of increase across the entire Plains region as we go into the night tonight even without thunderstorms we're going to be capable of receiving 50 m per hour wind gusts in Illinois tonight for example and I want to kind of highlight something here as I I pull this forward just notice how this major Windfield is uh touching everyone across the United States pretty much I want to draw our attention to Tennessee and Kentucky
• 09:00 - 09:30 because we just looked at the severe weather threat this is when that line of storms is coming through and we really focused on the southern side right because that's where the tornado risk is that's where the severe damaging wind threat is but even if we don't see severe thunderstorms up here in Southern Indiana down into Kentucky and Tennessee when these storms get into Nashville for example around 1 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. somewhere in that time frame they're going to be capable of producing 60 to 70 mph winds even outside of thunderstorms this is just like regular rain showers that could be causing this
• 09:30 - 10:00 so this is going to be a pretty impactful storm even much farther north from the damaging wind line of storms that's going to be happening down here in Alabama basically what this means is that you guys should be prepared for severe storms all the way up into Kentucky even if there's not going to be a lot of lightning thunder and hail there's going to be some people that get 60 mph wind gusts out of this and this is going to continue to move all the way over into the East Coast as we go into Wednesday now look at the backside at the same time that we're having the strong winds over there in Kentucky and
• 10:00 - 10:30 Tennessee and Ohio down in towards the Gulf Coast we're going to have 50 60 70 mph wind gusts intermittently back here in Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Kansas as well and it's going to be snowing back here that's why we have blizzard warnings going out and I think that these blizzard warnings right here are going to expand to the north and to the east as time goes on because I think a lot of us are going to be experiencing a blizzard as the storm wraps up here's a more broad view of what the radar could look like as we go into the early morning hours tomorrow here we are
• 10:30 - 11:00 around 6:00 a.m. I think we're going to have heavy snow from the Front Range of Colorado all the way up into South Dakota around this time and there will be some places that are experiencing 60 to 80 mph wind gusts at this time that's a full-on blizzard and then notice what happens here as the storm system really starts to wind up and it throws that Gulf moisture back into the cold side notice how there's a pretty impressive snow Shield that forms here this is a classic winter storm comma shaped look and once again this is going to be near record strength for a March storm simply
• 11:00 - 11:30 talking about how deep and how powerful the Cyclone is so that means that uh there's going to be some strong winds and definitely some very heavy snow going on here from Minneapolis down past Fort Dodge towards Kansas City around 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday March 5th it'll be a blizzard now it might be quick and I still don't think that anybody's going to get buried in feet of snow with this but the snow totals are looking more impressive now that we know that we're going to have so much moisture on the backside here in fact the national end of models is now promoting a pretty
• 11:30 - 12:00 large area of 6 to 10 in of snow in Southeastern portions of Minnesota and then a pretty large area of over a foot of snow up there in the up of Michigan and I think that maybe even this is on the low side I think Fort Dodge Iowa I think De Moine I think that you guys could see over 4 Ines of snow from this as you do get intermittent blizzard conditions throughout the day on Wednesday so yeah I think that this whole area right here needs to be watching out for 4 in of snow maybe more definitely more the F farther north you go and as you get into Northern
• 12:00 - 12:30 Wisconsin this is a 6 to 12 in kind of storm for you guys and then of course over here in the Colorado Front Range Foothills we're talking about 1 to two feet so get ready for that and all of this wind that's coming around the backside of the storm that's fueling the initiation of our storms in Oklahoma this evening it's dry it's very dry that's why it's able to lift the warm moist air and cause the storms and that dry air is going to be racing at 60 MPH over some dry vegetation leading to an extremely critical fire risk in New Mexico and Texas this afternoon and
• 12:30 - 13:00 evening that's going to carry us all the way into potentially Tuesday and Wednesday all across Texas so get ready in Texas for multiple wildfires rapidly spreading this is going to be one of the higher impact parts of the storm I think and then looking farther into the future absolutely nothing has changed with our more long-term Outlook after we get this big trough out of the way it's going to set the stage for another one to come through and this one will be interesting we'll start talking about it in a couple of days but looks like maybe another
• 13:00 - 13:30 shot of snow on the East Coast which will be Then followed by another major warmup and probably will'll set the stage for another round of severe weather after that check out this uh 8 to 14 day temperature outlook here from March 10th through March 16th most of us east of the Rockies are going to be much above average okay and some of us might actually quite a bit above average it's looking very confident that like there's going to be some uh major warm temps during this time period and then we're going to be much below average over
• 13:30 - 14:00 there on the west coast this is going to set the stage for who knows how many major storm systems so enjoy the warmth but do know that there is a price to pay for this kind of pattern and it's going to come in the form of some serious spring storms and y'all there's so much more that I could talk about but I'm trying my best not to make this video an hour long I hope that I touched on everything enough to give you enough context to get through until tomorrow where we will certainly be doing another video or we will be doing a live stream all day so we're going to be standing by tonight uh because the tornado threat
• 14:00 - 14:30 looks so interesting but we will definitely be here tomorrow live and make sure you tune in if you want an extra update on the potential severe weather on the East Coast tomorrow another update on the snow situation and all that good stuff so thank you for tuning in this is a crazy setup I'll see you in the next one goodbye