Important Takeaways:

• Extremely high winds sweeping through Texas and several other states could lead to severe danger for anyone near a window on Wednesday.
• Meteorologists are warning over a million people in Amarillo and El Paso, Texas alone to expect wind gusts over 65 mph.
• The National Weather Service (NWS) added that people should stay clear of windows due to the risk of extreme winds turning anything not tied down into a projectile.
• They added that people in multi-story homes should stay on the lower levels as the dangerous gusts could knock down trees.
• AccuWeather is predicting an even larger danger zone for these winds on Wednesday – tracking gusts over 40 mph across 20 states.
• In nine of those states, high winds will likely top 50 mph, including parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois.
• The new weather warnings come just days after a deadly storm smashed through the same region of the central US.
• On Tuesday, El Paso was already reporting wind gusts of more than 90 mph. NWS Amarillo added that ‘copious amounts’ of dust were being kicked up across central to eastern New Mexico.
• ‘Travel can be extremely dangerous during these powerful winds. We saw 18-wheelers flipped over and dust storms that reduced visibility to near-zero visibility within a matter of seconds, resulting in deadly chain-reaction pileups,’ DePodwin added.

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