Outbreak, deluge persistsNumerous records already broken
Weather & Radar field reporter Jonathan Petramala will be in the field for at least three days, one of his longest stretches of severe storm coverage. On Wednesday, there were 636 storm reports collected by the U.S. government's Storm Prediction Center. Twenty-nine were tornado reports There have been 12 deadly tornadoes causing 25 deaths so far this year before yesterday. This list will grow with media reports stating at least five deaths from at least two of Wednesday's tornadoes.
High temperatures were broken or tied in Baton Rouge, La., Muscle Shoals, Miss., while overnight lows in numerous locations in Louisiana set new record high minimums. Many of these records date back decades with several of them being a century old. Daily rainfall records, with many more likely to come, were set in Arkansas and Michigan. Again, these rainfall records broke decade-old ones. Nearly 5 inches of snow fell in Fargo, N.D., breaking a daily record. In Huron, S.D., 2.5 inches of snow tied a daily record set in 1937.
