Around 70 million Americans are in the path of a dangerous storm that’s headed toward the United States. According to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, the threat zone Monday stretched from the southern Appalachians to New York City.
CNN says a severe thunderstorm watch was in effect Monday evening for portions of eastern Maryland, central and eastern Virginia and central North Carolina. Damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph are the main threat, but hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter and an isolated tornado or two are also possible. The watch is in place until 1 a.m. ET Tuesday.
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“The region will be influenced today by an increasingly moist air mass preceding an eastward-moving full-latitude trough that is centered over the Plains early this morning. Linearly continuous outflow from last night’s storms extends from far eastern Oklahoma southward into east-central/southern Texas where a stronger convective line exists early this morning.
“Other convective-line preceding showers/thunderstorms have increased near the upper Texas coast and coastal southwest Louisiana, some of which have exhibited supercellular characteristics.
For additional short-term details, see Mesoscale Discussion 1911.”
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More concerns rise as Sacramento broke its 24-hour rainfall record, with 5.44 inches of rain reported downtown between 1 a.m. Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday. With 4.02 inches of rain, Sunday also marked the “4th Wettest day EVER in SF with records back to Gold Rush,” the weather service office said.
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