West:
The system over the Northwest coast will move eastward as far as western Montana spreading showers and mountain snow across the region. Warmer temperatures across Montana will melt the record late-April snow and could cause minor flooding.
Midwest:
A frontal system remains draped across the country from Texas to the Mid-Atlantic. A broad swath of precipitation with imbedded thunderstorms will extend across southern portions of the Midwest from Kansas to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. To the north, only the Upper Michigan peninsula will have showers from a disturbance moving through the Great Lakes.
South:
The frontal system discussed above, combined with moisture off the Gulf of Mexico, will produce heavy rain and thunderstorms from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas to the Carolinas. Flooding will continue across eastern Oklahoma, northeast Texas, Arkansas, northern Mississippi, northern Alabama and Tennessee. The area from Little Rock, AR, to Nashville, TN, will receive the heaviest precipitation; up to five inches is possible during the next 24 hours. The front will also produce severe thunderstorms with the threat of hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. Tomorrow, a low pressure area will move from the southern Appalachians to just off the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Thunderstorms will extend from eastern Tennessee and the Carolinas to the northern Gulf Coast.
Northeast:
The stalled front on the Virginia-North Carolina line will produce rain and rain showers across southeast New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and southern New England. Showers and thunderstorms are forecast for West Virginia and Virginia. Tomorrow, a low pressure system will move across the southern Mid-Atlantic, producing soaking rain and a few thunderstorms. Rain totals south of the Mason-Dixon Line could exceed three inches. (National Weather Service, various media sources)
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At 5:07 am EST, Bldg 7920 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had 4 high level alarms sound and was evacuated. A leak occurred in the hot cell where a radiological mix was being transferred.
No release occurred outside the facility and no offsite protective actions were required.
DOE Crisis Assessment Manager declared the event; In Recovery and terminated the Emergency Status at 1:53 pm EST. No request for federal assistance received.
No significant activity. (FEMA HQ)
Western Pacific:
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Last Modified: Monday, 04-May-2009 07:38:27 EDT