USA Today, by Thao Nguyen, Cybele Mayes-Osterman, and Minnah Arshad: Damaging thunderstorms and a reported tornado prompted a statewide response in New York late Tuesday, as rain, hail, and heat threatened millions of residents along the East Coast a day after severe weather in the Midwest left one person dead.
Severe thunderstorm watches were in effect Tuesday night across several states, including New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Maryland as the National Weather Service warned of dangerous winds, hail, and tornadoes. Parts of Northern Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma were also under thunderstorm watches.
The heavy rain Monday left parts of the Midwest at risk of flash flooding. A stretch of Missouri and Illinois was placed under a flash flood warning, hours after the National Weather Service issued a flash flood threat in southern-central Indiana into early Wednesday.
According to the weather service, east-central Missouri was also hit with a tornado warning just after noon on Tuesday after radar detected a tornado moving at 15 mph. As of late Tuesday, more than 166,000 customers remained without power across Illinois and Indiana, according to a USA TODAY outage tracker.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Tuesday as thunderstorms ripped through the state, knocking out power to more than 175,000 customers. The New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation was also assembling crews to assist with storm cleanup in Oneida County, where a tornado reportedly touched down and left a trail of damage in its wake.
Severe weather on Tuesday comes after a “complex of destructive storms” moved across eastern Iowa into northern Illinois on Monday night, according to the weather Service office in Chicago. Multiple tornadoes were reported along the line of storms as it moved through the Chicago metro, the agency said, adding its staff had to briefly seek shelter from a tornado.
The weather service confirmed three tornadoes on Monday night. One tornado was confirmed by radar near Sugar Grove, a village about 46 miles west of Chicago, according to the weather service. Another two tornadoes touched down near Des Moines, Iowa.
A 44-year-old woman died in Cedar Lake, an Indiana town around 45 miles south of Chicago, on Monday night after a tree fell on her home amid the severe storms, the Lake County Coroner’s Office posted on Facebook.
Prophetic Link:
“The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause. Men cannot discern the sentinel angels restraining the four winds that they shall not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there will be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture.” Testimonies to the Church, Vol 6, page 408.1.
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