From there , they often take several tracks - toward the Great Lakes , northeast through the St. Lawrence Valley into Quebec , off the upper East Coast , or through the central Rockies into the Oklahoma / Texas panhandle areas , then northeast toward the Great Lakes .
From there , they often take several tracks - toward the Great Lakes , northeast through the St. Lawrence Valley into Quebec , or off the upper East Coast . 
 Across the central states in winter and spring , '' Panhandle hook '' storms move from the central Rockies into the Oklahoma / Texas panhandle areas , then northeast toward the Great Lakes .