Severe weather could hamper post-Thanksgiving travel across the eastern U.S.

Heavy rain and strong winds stretched from Texas to Florida this weekend, threatening post-Thanksgiving travel plans, according to the National Weather Service.

Heavy rain and strong winds stretched from Texas to Florida this weekend, threatening post-Thanksgiving travel plans, according to the National Weather Service.

Nearly 55 million people were expected to travel 50 miles or more from their homes this Thanksgiving weekend — a 98% increase over pre-pandemic levels, according to the AAA.

A deep upper-level low made its way through the Southwest and into the South on Saturday, with impacts on such cities as Dallas, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee.

On Saturday afternoon, a tornado with sustained winds estimated to have reached 100 mph touched down in the town of Paradis, Louisiana, about 29 miles southwest of New Orleans. The storm peeled the roof off a house, flipped an RV and damaged the roof of a church, said Phil Grigsby of the National Weather Service.

The tornado, 200 yards wide, swept on for nearly three-quarters of a mile, felling branches, damaging trees and removing shingles from residential roofs, Grigsby said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/post-thanksgiving-travel-hampered-severe-weather-country-rcna58828


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