The Weather Service’s office for Quad Cities, a group of cities in Iowa and Illinois, warned residents to seek shelter as scattered thunderstorms, traveling at around 40 miles per hour, approached.
Voters in Chicago appeared to have heeded a call to vote early on Monday, ahead of bad weather on Tuesday, according to Max Bever, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Election. As of noon local time, more than 364,500 ballots were cast in the mayoral runoff race, reflecting a 22.9 percent citywide turnout, compared to 21 percent at noon of the last election on Feb. 28.
“Strong, potentially long track tornadoes are possible, in addition to large hail and damaging winds,” Storm Prediction Center forecasters said Tuesday morning. Some of which are likely to occur at night.
The South braces for tornadoes.
By late Tuesday night, severe weather will begin moving over parts of the South. In the southern section of Arkansas and Texas, forecasters said it was increasingly likely that there would be rare and dangerous overnight tornadoes and damaging winds. Nocturnal tornadoes are not rare, but stronger nighttime tornadoes, like what could occur here, are.
Meteorologists with the Weather Service in Little Rock, Ark., warned residents on Tuesday morning to remain alert for this very reason.
“Severe weather fatigue is very real,” forecasters said. Tuesday night’s forecast, with threats after midnight, may lead to “a false sense of security as nothing happens during the day,” they warned. On Tuesday night, forecasters said they were monitoring a potential tornado threat over an area including Little Rock.
The timing of the storms could lead to a “higher vulnerability,” forecasters said, stressing the importance of staying aware and having multiple methods of receiving alerts, even those that can wake a person up from sleep.
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