What to know about the destructive spring storm system

Strong rains and ferocious winds hit the central and south -eastern United States -for more than five days, leaving a trail of death, damage and interruptions in parts of 19 states.

The storm system, born from the hot air, strong winds, plenty of humidity and an unstable atmosphere, soaked the center of the country during the weekend, devastating communities from Texas to Ohio with floods and Tornado.

The storm is now moving east towards the Atlantic coast, and it is expected that it will begin to move to the sea on Monday and Tuesday, leaving behind quite rain fall to keep rivers and waterways for swelling for the days to come.

Here’s what to know about the destructive storm system.

Many states have been soaked by heavy rains for days.

The heavy rain of the storm lasted for days in many areas, saturating the ground and swallowed water courses and rivers with much more flow than they could manage.

The United States and other parts of the world have seen an increase in the frequency of extreme thunderstorms while the world warms up. And the frequency is likely that it increases as the heating continues. One of the fundamental reasons is that the hottest air contains more humidity.

Although any particular storm cannot be attributed directly to climate change without further analysis, it adapts to a general model. The hot air can contain more humidity, with consequent heavier times.

The area around Benton, in Western Kentucky, recorded more than 15 inches of rain from Tuesday morning to Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Memphis obtained more than one foot in the same period and some areas along the interstate 40 in the north -t of the city were submerged with almost 16 inches. The total of eight to 11 inches were common by central Arkansas through the Missouri boot heel to the Ohio river valley.

While the storm moves to the east and southern -East on Monday and Tuesday, the remaining rain should fall heavier – although two inch is possible in some areas – in southern Alabama and in the north -western florida. It is also ready to immerse most of the eastern coast, even if not so much.

The rain brought dangerous floods.

Most of the storm damage so far has been caused by alluvial waters that have passed the banks and banks of Rijeka, have increased through the streets and flooded the basements and floors on the ground of the buildings. Many of the most affected places were the cities and cities of the river that have already seen catastrophic floods before.

Rivers continued to climb even after the worst of the storm had gone on. “Given the fact that everything is so saturated, everything is just running from the ground and in inlets and waterways,” said Nate McGinnis, a meteorologist of the meteorological service in Wilmington, Ohio, Saturday.

Dozens of rivers from Arkansas to Indiana have flooded on Sunday, threatening bridges, banks, water and sewage systems and other infrastructures. It was not expected that some flows and rivers were believed for several days. The residents blocked were saved throughout the region.

The Kentucky river still skilled has flooded the streets of Frankfort, Ky. The flood wall of the city can resist 51 feet, but the meteorological service provided that the river would be rolled to 49.5 feet.

Elsewhere, parts of Shelbyville, India and all Falmouth, Ky., They were under orders of mandatory evacuation. Some neighborhoods of Nashville were flooded. The flood waters in Mammoth Springs, Ark., They washed out a railway line on Saturday and derail a freight train.

The storm killed over a dozen people in five states.

At least 18 deaths had been attributed to the storm system from Sunday evening. Nine of them were in Tennessee.

Two of the dead were young boys-a 5-year-old boy found in a house in Little Rock, in Ark, and a 9-year-old boy swept away by flood waters In Frankfort while walking towards a school bus stop.

A head of the firefighters in Whitewater, Mo., was killed while responding against the tornado and a 16 -year -old firefighter on his way to help with a rescue effort was killed In an accident in Beaufort, Mo.

The storm system prepared a violent punch, in particular Wednesday, when he generated dozens of tornadoes from southern Arkansas to northern Indiana.

There were so many reports of Tornado that some offices of the meteorological service delayed to confirm them. And in Nashville Thursday, so many warnings and Tornado notices have been issued that some of the city warning sirens he exhausted the batteries.

In Goreville, Illinois, a tornado has just lost Kassandra Beasley’s house on Wednesday evening. One had gone to only 100 feet from his home, he said, but it was not until the next day that he realized how close he was to have a brush with the disaster.

“I went home that night,” he remembered, “and he saw that he pulled both houses next to us – everything was so close.”

Tornadoes also landed during the weekend elsewhere. A blow close to Barton, in Ala., Late on Saturday and another, in the county of Jasper, miss., He killed a person.

The storm system characterized strong refined winds, even in areas where the Tornado was not formed. He has eliminated power for hundreds of thousands of customers, although the service has been restored in most areas by the weekend.

The rhythm of Tornado’s formation has loosened after Wednesday, but in the next few days more tornadoes are possible while the storm moves to the east, especially in some parts of the south -eastern Georgia, of the northern florida and the Carolina of the southern South.

The report was contributed by Nazaneen Ghaffar, Wings watkins, Carly Gist, Isabelle TAFT AND Kevin Williams.