AccuWeather Warns of Severe Weather Forecast
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
AccuWeather forecasters say Northeast at risk of severe weather
Thunderstorms will have the potential in the afternoon and evening to bring damaging wind gusts of 55-65 mph, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 70 mph possible. An isolated tornado or two is possible as well.
AccuWeather Global Weather Center – September 13, 2022 -AccuWeather meteorologists say that the threat of flooding that began in the Northeast on Sunday could be compounded by the potential for severe thunderstorms that are forecast to track through the heavily populated region into Tuesday.
The same storm that brought torrential rainfall to Chicago, which flooded basements and turned Soldier Field into a swamp, began bringing rounds of rain to the Northeast on Sunday.
On Sunday, the storm system unloaded 1.64 inches of rain in Salisbury, Maryland, located near the Delaware border, with rainfall amounts around an inch elsewhere in eastern Maryland and Delaware. Heavy rain also persisted from the western Philadelphia suburbs to north-central New Jersey.
On Monday, roughly a dozen severe weather reports were received by the Storm Prediction Center from the mid-Atlantic, stretching from North Carolina to Pennsylvania. While storms reaching severe status remained somewhat isolated, other hazards, such as lightning, were more common. This was the case in central Pennsylvania Monday night when a line of thunderstorms slid through the State College area. Heavy rain also deluged communities from Charlottesville, Virginia, to New Haven, Connecticut.