Multi-day Severe Weather To Wind Down Along Southeast Coast

The same cold front that made steady eastward progress through midweek across the Central states and interior Southeast will pause right along the southern Atlantic and eastern Gulf coast areas on Thursday. (AccuWeather)

A multi-day outbreak of severe weather that began on Monday and sparked dozens of tornadoes across the southern United States will conclude in coastal areas of the Carolinas and the Florida Peninsula on Thursday, AccuWeather meteorologists say.

Fears of a tornado striking a heavily populated metro area during the outbreak were realized when a powerful twister struck the New Orleans area Tuesday night. The intensity of the storm that killed one person, injured several others and caused significant damage was still being assessed as of Wednesday morning. The storm hit some neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of the Gulf Coast in 2005.