New York Severe Storms: Live Tracker

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Numerous weather alerts from the National Weather Service (NWS) have been issued across the Northeast, including New York, as a severe storm system moves through the region.

Why It Matters

The storms follow severe weather earlier this week that impacted multiple states from Ohio to Maryland. The storm path has shifted, with New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey bearing the brunt of impacts. In some instances, people were warned to take shelter amid strong winds and damaging hail.

What to Know

As of Tuesday afternoon, the NWS alerts in place for New York include a flash flood warning, severe thunderstorm watch, flood watch, and a special weather statement warning of damaging winds, hail, and isolated downpours.

Further south, tornado warnings were in place in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

NWS meteorologist Kaitlyn Lardeo, who works at the Binghamton office, told Newsweek the biggest concerns with the current storms are hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes.

Weather Radar

The severity of the storms is reflected in animated weather footage from windy.com. The weather radar indicates severe thunderstorms from Syracuse south through Binghamton. There are also some severe storms further north, near Utica.

Rain

Light rain was detected across New York, although the strongest rainstorms appeared to be in Connecticut.

Several locations across the region are expecting accumulating rainfall over the next three days, with some of the strongest amounts falling in central New York.

Wind

Wind gusts appeared strongest in eastern New York, near Albany. Animated weather footage from windy.com indicated winds in this area were gusting near 35 mph.

Elsewhere in the nation, severe storms are also impacting Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Heavy rain was moving further east to impact Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and the far western part of the Florida panhandle.

What People Are Saying

NWS Binghamton in a severe thunderstorm warning: “Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the basement or small central room in a sturdy structure. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.”

NWS in a Tuesday forecast: “Across the eastern U.S., another upper-level low and surface low is funneling high precipitable water and moisture transport along the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Additionally, cooler temperatures aloft associated with the upper-low will continue to provide severe weather potential through this evening for the main hazards of hail and strong winds. Fortunately, another trough will begin to dip southeast towards the east Coast and begin to slowly push the storm system out of the region.”

What Happens Next

The severe thunderstorm warning will expire by 5:15 p.m. ET this evening. Lardeo told Newsweek the storms should move out of the region by 10 p.m. Severe storms aren’t likely the rest of the week, although some weaker storms and some rain are possible.

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