Cold front sparks thunderstorms and change from the Midwest through the East Coast
The end of August is bringing bringing stormy weather from the Midwest to the East Coast, as AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish explains.
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00:00All right, so our top story is the severe thunderstorm threat in the Midwest.
00:03Last night we saw drenching storms in Minnesota, now this evening the threat is starting to
00:07drift a little bit farther to the east, so let's go ahead and take you live right now
00:10to northwest Pennsylvania and check out the view from Franklin.
00:14And you can see cloudy skies out there and wet roads, Jeff, we're going to see some showers
00:17and storms.
00:18Absolutely.
00:19We're dealing with some of that wet weather here still, we actually were looking at this,
00:23we were 83 degrees an hour ago, we knocked down about 10 degrees with the arrival of
00:28this thunderstorm, and you know, there were areas in central Pennsylvania where just yesterday
00:33I noticed the first hints of some fall color, not seeing anything too obvious there, but
00:38we're going to begin to see some of that here fairly soon.
00:41So that thunderstorm is moving through the Franklin Oil City area and Cranberry Township
00:45of Enango County, PA, seeing some downpours here, that's the cell that we're looking at
00:49there.
00:50Not quite severe at the moment, though it was once warned as severe.
00:53We're also up in the northern parts of other areas just to the south, we're dealing with
00:57some storms, northern parts of say the area around Butler County seeing some thunderstorms.
01:01We do have a couple of severe cells on the map here into Indiana, one of these is creeping
01:05into the western part of LaGrange County, northwestern Noble County, and still exiting
01:10eastern Elkhart County of Indiana.
01:13And then also farther south, this storm has had some tree damage associated with it into
01:17White County and a little bit of southern Pulaski County, Indiana, some strong storms
01:22there.
01:23So much flooding has been what we've seen in the past hour or two here into parts of
01:26Illinois, Springfield, IL, also into areas around Macon County, Litchfield, and also
01:31into areas of eastern Warren County in Missouri.
01:34And here we have a lone severe cell popping up into areas of eastern Jackson County of
01:39Kentucky near McKee, and also into a little bit of Owsley County there, well to the west
01:44of the area around the city of Jackson.
01:47And then also into North Carolina, this back door cold front has been kind of a different
01:50animal here, this actually backed into us through the mid-Atlantic states, this is
01:54why it's been cooler and cloudier up in Dover, Delaware.
01:57Still some strong storms here, we've had some flash flooding in some spots near Greenville
02:02and into areas off to the east here in North Carolina, flash flooding still a concern into
02:07Duplin County.
02:08And there are some severe storms backing into the area, approaching Boone, and as we put
02:12a motion into this, you can see there are slow movers barely drifting south and west
02:16at this point.
02:17There is still the risk for severe weather here into some spots into the area of Michigan,
02:23so again, before the nice weather returns, eastern Michigan, from Harbor Beach and areas
02:28near Saginaw, Flint, Bay City, down to Detroit, Monroe, Hillsdale, severe thunderstorm watch
02:33continues until 9 p.m. central time.
02:36There is a risk for damaging wind and hail into other areas, we mentioned Indiana, couple
02:39of severe cells, widely separated though, and into western Ohio, but we're seeing a
02:43few of these in Pennsylvania and other areas too.
02:47Tomorrow we're going to see much more widespread thunderstorm action into the area of northern
02:51Pennsylvania up into upstate New York, parts of Ohio may see a couple of storms, we could
02:56see some lightning delays during some college football games, be careful out there, there
03:00we are at 5 p.m. as these nose into the big cities of the northeast, and still on Sunday
03:05we'll have some storms for the Jersey Shore, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C., the
03:09interior dries out, and Damien, it's very much a split forecast, there's some great
03:13weather and some awful weather this weekend.