Severe weather could impact more than 90 million people across the middle of the country this week, forecasts show, as storms continue to threaten multiple U.S. states in the Midwest and northern Plains.
Up to 4 inches of rain may fall in some areas on Tuesday, and the region remains at risk of flash flooding as well as storms causing large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes, according to CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan. This comes after more than half a foot of rain struck the region on Monday, resulting in 65 flash flood reports out of Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, Nolan said.
Flood watches remained in effect until Tuesday night for about 6 million in the Midwest. Earlier flood alerts covered large swaths of Missouri and Illinois, with some extending farther south through Tennessee and into northern Alabama and Georgia. But many of those watches, which are issued when weather conditions mean flooding is possible but not necessarily guaranteed, have since expired.
The severe weather threat to major cities in Kansas, like Topeka and Salina, is expected to last through Thursday, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center.
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Storms across the Plains could also potentially produce “hail, severe wind gusts, and a few tornadoes,” while heavy rain posed risks of flash flooding across sections of the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters have predicted rainfall of 7 inches or more in some areas.
Forecasters also warned that excessive rain in Tennessee would continue to carry the potential for flash flooding on Tuesday, after as much as 9 inches of rain drenched parts of the region in recent days. Rushing water near Huntsville, Alabama, which is just over Tennessee’s southern border, triggered a flash flood emergency on Sunday, when video footage captured vehicles partially submerged on a street. The flooding left some drivers stranded.
This week’s storms come on the heels of others that already brought heavy rain and strong winds to parts of the country over the weekend, leading to at least one death in New York City.
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Parts of the South were affected, too. In Texas’ Milam County, about an hour outside of Austin, torrential downpours caused vehicles to slide off of local roads on Saturday and prompted multiple water rescues. In Slidell, Louisiana, up to 6 inches of rain fell in less than 12 hours, which also caused flash flooding.
As the weekend storms pounded northeastern states like Pennsylvania and New York, Pittsburgh resident Tim Broadwater told “CBS Mornings” that ferocious wind gusts shook his home so violently that it was knocked off of the cement blocks that previously held it upright.
“I was scared to death,” Broadwater said. “I thought I was going to end up in the creek.”
In New York City, officials said an 85-year-old man was struck and killed by a falling tree in Queens. In Brooklyn, where wind gusts reached 64 mph, video showed furniture tumbling across the deck of a rooftop pool. The city’s Parks and Recreation Department said the storms downed more than 250 trees across the city.
Another dramatic scene from West Virginia showed wind blowing a tent across a lawn, and dragging several people along with it, during a college basketball game between West Virginia University and Cal Poly.
