Much of the sound bracing for the possibility of a severe thunderstorm is widespread system moves into the region corresponding Clinton doubles as weather experts are calling it a potent storm system close to nineteen million people from Arkansas and Oklahoma south to Texas and Louisiana under the three right of a tornado outbreak meteorologist Brad Barton says the system also brings with it a chance for torrential rain that could fall in a hurry we've been building up a lot of Gulf moisture last twenty four to thirty six hours of this potential flash flooding during the heaviest rains probably after dark the National Weather Service says wind gusts in the region could top eighty miles per hour that's the speed of a category one