Wall Street Journal , today This is an oft-recurring issue. Which is why America desperately needs a National Disaster Review Board: not just to provide answers but to fix the problems so they don't cost life and property in the future. 

This was right after it made its delivery at my home. 

New Tornado Watch Issued, the Second of the Day First Tornado Watch Please monitor the weather in these areas. I will try to provide an update this evening. 

Yellow, hatched area is where there is an enhanced risk of strong  tornadoes. The brown area has a significant risk of tornadoes.  The higher tornado risk is after about 2pm and will continue into the early to mid-evening. However, there will be a risk in the eastern part of the area most of the night.  The red areas are flash flood warnings. Green is a flash flood watch.  I am attending a meteorology conference today and this evening so I will not be able to update as frequently as I usually do in these situations. I will try to update this afternoon. In the meantime, please monitor the weather if you live in these areas. 

Here is a preliminary outlook for tomorrow and tomorrow evening regarding the potential for tornadoes. The yellow hatched area is where there is an enhanced  risk of strong tornadoes. They are most likely in the afternoon and early evening. The brown area is where there is a significant risk of tornadoes and the eastern part of the area, Nashville to Mobile, may see tornadoes during the Saturday night/Sunday morning timeframe.  Of course, I will update this forecast tomorrow morning. In the meantime, please check the batteries on your weather radio, charge your smartphone if it has a warning app, or sign up for StormWarn which will awaken you but only if it is a life-threatening situation (e.g., no hail alarms). 

From Yesterday While the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to fix as much as possible as quickly as possible, I completely agree that officials in the Biden Administration need to go to jail for the intentional cruelty shown to the people of the southern Appalachians. 

Considerable flooding is likely over the next seven days near and south of the Ohio River Valley. The dark blue means "considerable" flooding and the purple dots mean that major  river flooding is forecast. Red means that moderate flooding is forecast.  Currently, flash flood watches (green) are in effect for much of the region with five inches or more of rain forecast to fall.