1 dead as Eastern Seaboard slammed with severe thunderstorms Thursday
Wind gusts of 60-70 mph or more were scattered across multiple states, leading to nearly 250 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and over 200 reports of wind damage or severe weather from Maine to Florida.
Lightning lights up skies over Pennsylvania during severe weather outbreak
Over 120,000 people lost power Thursday night as powerful thunderstorms rolled across the entire Eastern Seaboard. (Video: Ethan Kerr via Storyful)
MONTROSE, Pa. -- A man was killed, and thousands were left without power Thursday night after severe thunderstorms blasted multiple areas up and down the Eastern Seaboard. And the region faces a second round of severe weather on Friday.
Wind gusts of 60-70 mph or more were scattered across multiple states, leading to nearly 250 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, and over 200 reports of wind damage or severe weather from Maine to Florida.
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In northeastern Pennsylvania, a man was killed by a falling tree, according to the NWS.
Noisy commute in Palmyra, Pennsylvania
Heavy rain and hail came down on this car in Palmyra, Pennsylvania.
Multiple trees fell into homes in northern Richmond, Virginia, NWS spotters reported. Another tree fell into an occupied camper in Lisle, New York, and onto a car in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. In western Maryland, trees fell across parts of Interstates 70, 81 and 270 as storms rolled through, and the town of Falling Waters registered a gust of 75 mph.
Farther south, a roof and carport suffered structural wind damage in Twiggs County, Georgia.
Winds topple trees in northern Virginia on Sept. 7, 2023.
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Over 125,000 people were still without power Friday morning, mainly in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, according to Poweroutage.US.
The cold front slowly trudging east triggering the storms was set to bring a renewed threat of severe weather Friday, but the silver lining is the storms will usher in cooler air, bringing relief to a blistering late summer heat wave that has set multiple records across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.