The system unleashed destructive tornadoes and serious flooding, while cutting power to hundreds of thousands.
Volunteers and staff of Scotty's Performance Boat & Marine try to salvage boats on Thursday in Slidell, La., after a tornado hit a day earlier. A potent storm system — which unleashed more than a dozen tornadoes and caused serious flash flooding from Texas to Pennsylvania — is finally pulling away.on Monday afternoon. It concluded with a spattering of flash flood and tornado warnings along the Eastern Seaboard Thursday night into Friday morning.
Powerful winds along the system’s path — topping 70 to 80 mph in some cases — cut power to several hundred thousand customers, with Louisiana being the hardest-hit state. There were still nearly 20,000 customers in the dark there midday Friday and another 50,000 without electricity from Virginia to New York, which saw gusty storms Thursday night.
Storms merged into a violent line early Wednesday, spurring the Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center to draw a Level 4 out of 5 risk of severe weather along the Gulf Coast. The squall line straddled a stationary frontwith 115 mph winds. The tornado only lasted 4 minutes, but it damaged the east side of McNeese State University around 6:38 a.m.
Catastrophic flooding ongoing in portions of East Texas this morning. Radar estimate storm totals of 17”+ southwest of Newton. A flash flood emergency is in effect.“It looks like 6 or 7 inches of rain fell on New Orleans,” Jacob Zeringue, a meteorologist at the Weather Service office serving New Orleans, said in an interview. “We received lots of reports of vehicles being stalled, and the underpasses were largely impassible as well. Lots of flooded roads. Some water got into the businesses.
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