Memorial Day thunderstorms sweep through the Northeast

Memorial Day was a stormy one up and down the East Coast.

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00:00but there will still be some downpours and also some lightning strikes

00:04accompanying some of these thunderstorms here as they press their

00:07way toward Hazleton as well as again the east of Harrisburg toward a Lebanon

00:12Meyers town and also toward a reading here over the next 30 to 45 minutes.

00:17Now, where we are looking at severe thunderstorms point south here right

00:21into Baltimore. So conditions will be changing here rather quickly actually

00:25put pause on this and we're looking at a severe thunderstorm warning out for

00:28Baltimore City. Again, this goes until again the top of the hour here till 8

00:33p.m. and there is the potential here we could see winds topping 50 miles per

00:37hour. We could also be looking at the concern here for some large hail. I'll

00:42check to see if we've had any reports coming out recently and not seeing any

00:45reports right now, but you can definitely see there's a tremendous

00:48amount of lightning and you can see the cores of red here north of again

00:52Columbia and east of Eldersberg. And this is where the greatest concern would

00:58be as these thunderstorms have kind of merged into one cluster. Additional

01:02warning out here just now north and west of our nation's capital. There's a

01:06thunderstorm here just sitting just north of Reston, Virginia and this is

01:10going to be a severe thunderstorm warning here that goes until, let me

01:14bring it up here really quickly for you, I'll take that off and we'll try it

01:17again here, Fairfax County, Virginia until 730. So right through the bottom

01:22of the hour we're looking at a severe thunderstorm warning there. And then we

01:25have to venture our way south into the state of North Carolina where we

01:28do have a couple of tornado warnings going on. These are edging their way

01:31toward the Outer Banks as we speak. Tornado warning here going for a Hyde

01:35County, North Carolina until 7 30 as well as the Kirituk County, North

01:40Carolina until 7 30. So both of these zones here looking at the potential of

01:45a tornado as well as damaging winds and large hail. And we'll show you the

01:50watch situation here. Actually we'll go to the risk situation here first and

01:54this is going to take us through the remaining hours of this evening as we

01:58look for the potential of additional severe thunderstorms throughout these

02:01states basically going from texas all the way north into new york state. We'll

02:06be following thunderstorms as they slot their way east of new jersey up into new

02:10england where they will be subsevere but there could still be some downpours

02:14and some lightning strikes.