Intense weather heading South

An outbreak of intense weather packing powerful winds and tornadoes looms over the Southern Plains and South by week's end. The storm system will move eastward March 1 eventually triggering a severe outbreak on March 2. Northern Louisiana and likely is facing a threat of winds up to 80 mph, baseball-size hail and tornadoes (up to EF-2 strength). The region is under a Level 4 of 5 threat on March 2, including Shreveport, La. The entire severe threat area stretches from central Texas to Alabama on March 2.  Memphis and Jackson, Miss., are under a Level 3 of 5 severe storm risk. Temperatures have been near record highs across the Southeast this week. This warm air will add fuel to the storms. Cities in Louisiana are set to tie or break temperature records before the onset of severe weather. As a cold front pushes eastward, a squall line is predicted to develop in the afternoon of March2, which will increase the threat of damaging winds. It will be a long-duration storm as it treks eastward into Louisiana and Arkansas by nighttime. A severe storm threat moves into central Mississippi and western Tennessee overnight into March 3, maintaining a risk of damaging winds up to 70 mph and tornadoes. A Flash Flood watch will be in place for western Tennessee and northern Mississippi through Friday morning. (CNN 03/01/23) Severe weather in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas threatens strong tornadoes and damaging winds on Thursday | CNN