Severe storms, isolated tornadoes to threaten Northeast

The greatest risk of severe weather will occur after 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, but there could be dangers beginning even earlier in the afternoon in the risk zone, which stretches from upstate New York to eastern North Carolina. More than 45 million people live within the corridor expected to experience stormy conditions.

AccuWeather Global Weather Center – October 13, 2022 – Widespread showers and thunderstorms will continue to spread across the northeastern United States on Thursday and Thursday night, and AccuWeather meteorologists expect flash flooding and severe weather, including the risk of isolated tornadoes, to unfold. The volatile weather will affect some of the largest metropolitan areas in the region including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.

The greatest risk of severe weather will occur after 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, but there could be dangers beginning even earlier in the afternoon in the risk zone, which stretches from upstate New York to eastern North Carolina. More than 45 million people live within the corridor expected to experience stormy conditions.

Strong wind gusts will be the most prevalent hazard from the storms with the likelihood that tree branches can break and come crashing down. As a result, scattered power outages will be possible. Torrential downpours will threaten flash flooding as well as flooding in developed areas.

There is the potential for a couple of isolated tornadoes to spin up in the strongest storms. Although the risk of tornadoes is low, any twisters that do touch down could also be concealed by heavy rain or low-hanging clouds. AccuWeather forecasters say that this fact underscores the need for people to stay alert to rapidly changing weather conditions and have a means for receiving severe thunderstorm watches and warnings. The AccuWeather app is one source that provides these critical weather alerts.

Small hail could accompany some of the strongest thunderstorms as well.

The storm system triggering the thunderstorms across the Northeast was behind severe weather that ignited from the Midwest to the Southern states on Wednesday. The system’s cold front is heading eastward and is poised to bring storms with high winds and torrential rain in several rounds from eastern North Carolina to eastern New York and New England into Thursday night.

Multiple rounds of windswept rain, some with thunder and lightning, will affect the New York City area Thursday night. The anticipated adverse and potentially severe weather conditions forced Major League Baseball to postpone the ALDS game at Yankee Stadium between the Cleveland Guardians and New York Yankees until Friday.

Both the thunderstorms and showers have the potential to organize into multiple lines that will contain brief periods of strong winds and downpours. In other words, it is possible that some of the severe weather will occur without any thunder or lightning. Areas from the central Appalachians to northern New England are most likely to experience torrential downpours without thunder and lightning.

As the line of showers and storms swing through, flight delays will be possible at major airport hubs.

In New England, a longer-lasting period of heavy rain and strong winds is likely to occur due to the orientation of the drenching weather as it moves through the region.

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