Components of the Northeast are beneath the specter of extreme thunderstorms on Thursday, with 60 million folks on alert for extreme climate.
A extreme thunderstorm watch is in impact up and down the I-95 hall via 9 p.m. Thursday for cities together with Richmond, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York Metropolis.
Extreme thunderstorm warnings have additionally been issued in some areas, together with in southeastern Pennsylvania.
The principle menace with these storms shall be widespread damaging wind gusts to 75 mph. Hail and tornadoes are additionally potential.
A bolt of lightning strikes close to the Empire State Constructing in New York, June 19, 2025.
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A “giant and intensely harmful” twister was situated over Landenberg in southeastern Pennsylvania round 5 p.m. Thursday, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned.
In New York Metropolis, a young person was struck by lightning in Central Park Thursday afternoon, police mentioned. The teenager is alert and acutely aware, police mentioned.
The storms have led to energy outages and flight cancellations alongside the East Coast.
Greater than 500,000 clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic had been with out energy as of Thursday night, primarily in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland, in response to PowerOutage.us.
Almost 600 flights have been canceled nationwide on Thursday, in response to FlightAware, with New York’s LaGuardia Airport essentially the most impacted.
ABC Information’ Melissa Griffin contributed to this report.
