Courtney leaves the northernmost stretch of the state, some 26 counties by his estimation, as the name many a Texan knows it by – the Panhandle. Just south of the Panhandle is a region dubbed the Greater Panhandle Plains. Courtney then delineates North Texas as the region immediately east of it.
A severe storm was moving east across the central and southern United States on Wednesday, a day after it carved a destructive path that killed three people in Mississippi and two in Nebraska, pulled down power lines and ripped roofs off buildings.
The winter storm could impact up to 170 million people across more than 20 states from the southern Plains to the Midwest and East, AccuWeather said.
A major severe weather outbreak is expected to impact a large swathe of the central and eastern United States this week, bringing the risk of tornadoes,