Severe storms to rumble daily in central, eastern US
As high humidity helps to fuel storms with torrential downpours and flash flooding in the central and eastern United States, some locations will also be hammered by damaging winds.
Multiple people were struck and one killed by lightning at Black Knight Bowbenders archery range In Jackson Township, New Jersey, on July 16.
More storms will be on the prowl in portions of the central and eastern United States into the weekend. While flash flooding will pose the greatest risks to lives and property in the coming days, some of the storms will bring damaging wind gusts that can lead to sporadic power outages, AccuWeather meteorologists warn.
Much of the zone from the northern Plains to the Upper Midwest will get a break from severe weather into Friday afternoon. The same can't be said farther East.
Into Thursday night, severe thunderstorms will revisit many areas from the Ohio Valley to the central Appalachians. The severe weather risk may extend farther to the east, into the mid-Atlantic zone once again.
A separate zone of severe thunderstorms is foreseen in the Northeast that extends central and southeastern upstate New York to northern New England and southeastern Quebec.
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It is possible that a couple of tornadoes spin up in the strongest storms into Thursday night, especially from northeastern New York to Vermont and part of southern Quebec.
On Friday, the potential severe weather will tend to focus from the central and southern Appalachians to the I-95 mid-Atlantic.
Storms capable of producing locally damaging wind gusts, but with the potential for flash flooding, will extend from Delaware and Maryland to North Carolina Friday.
While a southward push of dry air in the Northeast will tend to shut down severe weather in the Northeast during part of the weekend, the atmosphere is likely to reload over portions of the Plains and Midwest.
A new round of severe thunderstorms is forecast to erupt over parts of the northern Plains and the Upper Midwest during Friday night.
This particular crop of severe thunderstorms may evolve into a long-lived complex that, as it moves to the southeast, could bring damaging winds over a significant distance in the Midwest from Friday night to Saturday.
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