The end of August is bringing bringing stormy weather from the Midwest to the East Coast, as AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish explains.
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00:00All right, so our top story is the severe thunderstorm threat in the Midwest.
00:03Last night we saw drenching storms in Minnesota, now this evening the threat is starting to
00:07drift a little bit farther to the east, so let's go ahead and take you live right now
00:10to northwest Pennsylvania and check out the view from Franklin.
00:14And you can see cloudy skies out there and wet roads, Jeff, we're going to see some showers
00:17and storms.
00:18Absolutely.
00:19We're dealing with some of that wet weather here still, we actually were looking at this,
00:23we were 83 degrees an hour ago, we knocked down about 10 degrees with the arrival of
00:28this thunderstorm, and you know, there were areas in central Pennsylvania where just yesterday
00:33I noticed the first hints of some fall color, not seeing anything too obvious there, but
00:38we're going to begin to see some of that here fairly soon.
00:41So that thunderstorm is moving through the Franklin Oil City area and Cranberry Township
00:45of Enango County, PA, seeing some downpours here, that's the cell that we're looking at
00:49there.
00:50Not quite severe at the moment, though it was once warned as severe.
00:53We're also up in the northern parts of other areas just to the south, we're dealing with
00:57some storms, northern parts of say the area around Butler County seeing some thunderstorms.
01:01We do have a couple of severe cells on the map here into Indiana, one of these is creeping
01:05into the western part of LaGrange County, northwestern Noble County, and still exiting
01:10eastern Elkhart County of Indiana.
01:13And then also farther south, this storm has had some tree damage associated with it into
01:17White County and a little bit of southern Pulaski County, Indiana, some strong storms
01:22there.
01:23So much flooding has been what we've seen in the past hour or two here into parts of
01:26Illinois, Springfield, IL, also into areas around Macon County, Litchfield, and also
01:31into areas of eastern Warren County in Missouri.
01:34And here we have a lone severe cell popping up into areas of eastern Jackson County of
01:39Kentucky near McKee, and also into a little bit of Owsley County there, well to the west
01:44of the area around the city of Jackson.
01:47And then also into North Carolina, this back door cold front has been kind of a different
01:50animal here, this actually backed into us through the mid-Atlantic states, this is
01:54why it's been cooler and cloudier up in Dover, Delaware.
01:57Still some strong storms here, we've had some flash flooding in some spots near Greenville
02:02and into areas off to the east here in North Carolina, flash flooding still a concern into
02:07Duplin County.
02:08And there are some severe storms backing into the area, approaching Boone, and as we put
02:12a motion into this, you can see there are slow movers barely drifting south and west
02:16at this point.
02:17There is still the risk for severe weather here into some spots into the area of Michigan,
02:23so again, before the nice weather returns, eastern Michigan, from Harbor Beach and areas
02:28near Saginaw, Flint, Bay City, down to Detroit, Monroe, Hillsdale, severe thunderstorm watch
02:33continues until 9 p.m. central time.
02:36There is a risk for damaging wind and hail into other areas, we mentioned Indiana, couple
02:39of severe cells, widely separated though, and into western Ohio, but we're seeing a
02:43few of these in Pennsylvania and other areas too.
02:47Tomorrow we're going to see much more widespread thunderstorm action into the area of northern
02:51Pennsylvania up into upstate New York, parts of Ohio may see a couple of storms, we could
02:56see some lightning delays during some college football games, be careful out there, there
03:00we are at 5 p.m. as these nose into the big cities of the northeast, and still on Sunday
03:05we'll have some storms for the Jersey Shore, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C., the
03:09interior dries out, and Damien, it's very much a split forecast, there's some great
03:13weather and some awful weather this weekend.