An outbreak of severe storms began to lash the South on Tuesday, and will continue overnight, when tornadoes are forecast.
"Severe thunderstorms, with widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes, are expected," according to an online bulletin from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Okla.
The states at greatest risk for tornadoes are Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The greatest threat were expected Tuesday night. Shrouded in darkness, nighttime tornadoes can be deadly, especially during the winter season when people are not accustomed to such severe weather, the National Weather Service warns.
Warm air is pushing north ahead of the storms: Chicago set a record high temperature of 62 degrees, which is about 30 degrees above average. Corpus Christi, Texas, reached 90 degrees on Tuesday, only the fourth time that city has reached the 90s in January since records began in 1887.
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