Mid-Atlantic on Alert: Severe Thunderstorm Watch Encompasses Philadelphia, Washington, and Millions More

Richmond, Virginia:

Once more, on Thursday night, the FOX Forecast center is keeping an eye out for any chance of strong storms in the mid-Atlantic.

However, the main dangers are anticipated to be centered in the east and south of significant urban centers like Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, in contrast to the tornado activity on Wednesday that injured at least five people in Maryland.

The monitoring region, which stretched from the border between Virginia and North Carolina to the Jersey Shore, contained close to 20 million people.

The Severe Thunderstorm Watch covered areas of Maryland that were severely damaged by tornadoes on Wednesday, including Poolesville and Gaithersburg. Thankfully, the most recent storm system did not get stronger before it arrived in these regions.

Before a cold front that is expected to pass over the area by Friday morning, there is a risk of isolated storms.

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“There’s less wind shear and rotational motion along the warm front than there was yesterday,” meteorologist Ian Oliver of FOX Weather said. “Yet, certain storms have the potential to produce damaging straight-line wind gusts that surpass 60 mph. We’re keeping a careful eye on everything.”

Numerous tornadoes made landfall. Maryland At least five people were injured as a result of more than a dozen tornadoes that were reported to the SPC on Wednesday in the Baltimore area and the environs of Washington, D.C.

Homes in the impacted neighborhoods were frequently damaged by fallen trees.

“Looks like we had two or three long-track tornadoes throughout the area,” said Jim Lee, the National Weather Service’s chief meteorologist in the Baltimore-Washington office.

When a tornado hits a home in Detroit, the mother was hospitalized and the toddler died.

Local villages were impacted by gusts of at least 100 mph, according to preliminary surveys done by NWS meteorologists.

According to NWS meteorologists, the number of tornado reports in a short period of time was unusual and represented an activity level not seen in decades.

Tornadoes and other extreme weather are common in the Washington and mid-Atlantic regions. Severe thunderstorms caused extensive damage to the nation’s capital just last summer, with gusts reaching 80 mph in a large area.