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The same potent storm system responsible for more than 200 incidents of severe weather and dozens of tornado reports over the central United States through Wednesday night will now focus its energy on a dozen states in the East into Thursday evening, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. Some of Thursday’s severe thunderstorms include the potential for a few tornadoes to develop.
Thus far, the strongest tornado from the current outbreak occurred early Wednesday morning in Springdale, Arkansas, and was rated as an EF3 with maximum winds of 145 mph. The storm injured several people and damaged homes and a school. Fortunately, the storm stuck prior to the arrival of students.
The likelihood of severe thunderstorms and the potential for a few tornadoes includes some major population centers along the Interstate 95 corridor from New York City to Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and all the way down to Jacksonville, Florida.
Approximately 90 million people will be at risk of severe weather that extends along a 1,000-mile swath of the Eastern states, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center.
The threat zone extends as far to the west as the central Appalachians and a portion of the Great Lakes, and as far to the east as the Atlantic coastal waters from Florida to Long Island Sound.
The storms will fire up ahead of and along a strong cold front that is separating May-like temperatures along the Atlantic coast from conditions more typical of February over the Midwest.