The weather was severe on Sunday over a large portion of the country. The featured chart presents the combined number of counties under either a tornado or severe thunderstorm watch at a given time. The total combined area of those counties is presented as well. At 3:45 PM yesterday, 445 counties were in watches covering an area larger than Texas! According the IEM data, the largest number of counties under watch in the past 6 years was 785 during the recent outbreak over the south on 27 April.

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