より多い 200,000 homes and businesses in the Northeast were without power early Tuesday morning after a line of strong storms brought soaking rain and damaging winds to the region.
より多い 65 million people from the mountains of North Carolina to Cape Cod, including Washington, DC, ボルチモア, Philadelphia and New York, were under wind advisories as forecasters warned gusts up to 50 mph are possible overnight, raising the potential for tree damage and dangerous road conditions.
There were reports of 60-70 mph gusts in Pennsylvania and New York, CNN Meteorologist Michael Guy said.
あった 350 reports of damaging winds in the region late Sunday through Monday night.
Hail was also falling in some areas, though the severe conditions that spawned deadly tornadoes in Iowa Saturday have faded, Guy noted.
より多い 84,000 customers in New York were without power early Tuesday morning, による PowerOutage.us. ほぼ 72,000 outages were reported in Pennsylvania and more than 39,000 were reported in New Jersey. New Hampshire and Massachusetts each had more than 10,000 outages.
“The rain with this system was quite heavy and saturated the ground.” Guy said. “Downed trees are expected with the strong winds, leading to power outages and travel delays.”
As the storm system moves out of the region, colder temperatures will settle in, インクルード National Weather Service (NWS) 前記.
7 killed in weekend tornadoes
The gusting winds in the Northeast come as parts of Iowa are cleaning up the damage left behind by deadly tornadoes over the weekend.
Several tornadoes touched down near Des Moines Saturday, killing seven people, 2人の子供を含む, and impacting dozens of homes.
In Madison County, six people were killed, Emergency Management Director Diogenes Ayala said. The oldest victim was 72 years old and the youngest was aged 2.
People stand among debris Monday as cleanup efforts were underway in Winterset, アイオワ, after a tornado tore through the area Saturday.
The tornado was an EF-4, which means it had maximum sustained winds of 170 mph. It was on the ground for more than 90 minutes and its path stretched nearly 70 マイル.
It was the first EF-4 tornado in Iowa since October 2013 and is the second-longest tornado path since 1980, behind only a 117-mile path on June 7, 1984, in southern Iowa.
“これは, おもう, the worst anyone has seen in quite a long time,” Ayala said Sunday, noting about 52 homes within a span of more than 13 miles were damaged or destroyed in Madison County.
A person in a rural area near the Lucas County city of Chariton was also killed, 関係者は言った.
全体, there were just under 40 reports of tornadoes over the weekend, according to CNN Meteorologist Dave Hennen. Most were reported in Iowa on Saturday, though there were others in Arkansas, ミズーリ, Wisconsin and Indiana. 全部で, 以上がありました 200 reports of severe weather — 竜巻を含む, damaging winds and hail — in more than a dozen states, Hennen said.
The Chariton tornado is also estimated to have been an EF3 with winds of 138 mph and was on the ground for more than 16 マイル, according to preliminary NWS surveys.
Other tornadoes that touched down include an EF2 with estimated winds of 122 mph near Leon, which was on the ground for 19 マイル, the NWS said.
An EF1 tornado with 110 mph winds occurred in Vinton, an EF1 with 100 mph winds struck in West Lake Park and an EF-0 tornado also impacted West Lake Park with 65 時速風, according to the NWS.
