The National Weather Service has issued a lot of severe weather watches and warnings. All of these areas are under severe thunderstorm watches, some under tornado watches and flash flood watches. West of and behind the front, the Quad cities in Iowa, areas of Illinois and lower Michigan are dealing with a Winter Weather Advisory, and will watch the rain change over to snow.
As the low pressure system and associated cold front push east, National Weather Service in Charleston, West Virginia calls for showers and thunderstorms that could be severe today and tonight, that may include damaging winds and hail. Once the cold front sweeps through the thunderstorm activity will end.
This movie was created using GOES-13 visible and infrared satellite imagery. The 25 second movie runs from Feb. 29 at 1718 UTC (12:18 pm EST) through March 2 at 1740 UTC (12:40 pm EST), and shows the progression of the first storm system that generated about 20 tornadoes on Feb. 29 and the second cold front behind it creating the severe weather on March 2.
(Photo Credit: : NASA/NOAA GOES Project)
This GOES-13 satellite image was captured on from March 2 at 1740 UTC (12:40 pm EST) and shows the clouds associated with the powerful low pressure area and trailing cold front that generated several tornadoes during the morning hours on March 2.
(Photo Credit: : NASA/NOAA GOES Project)
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center