Unsettled weather lingers along East Coast for millions on Independence Day
Another round of severe weather is expected to blast states along the East Coast, placing millions of people at risk of damaging wind gusts, large hail and even an isolated tornado.
Monday’s threat of thunderstorms follows a busy day of severe weather across the eastern US.
Sunday when the National Weather Service tallied nearly 300 combined reports of wind damage, hail and tornadoes from the Mississippi River to the East Coast.
Trained weather spotters in Pennsylvania reported a large tornado moving through parts of the state Sunday afternoon.
Derek Mitchley said a suspected tornado damaged a building in the borough of Lewisburg.
The National Weather Service in State College, Pennsylvania, said that two EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Union County.
Farther south, multiple Tornado Warnings were issued in Kentucky on Sunday.
One storm chaser spotted a wall cloud attached to a severe storm near Lexington.
Strong winds and rain lashed parts of Lexington as the severe storms tore through the Kentucky city.
Independence Day severe weather threat
Severe weather will be possible again on the Fourth of July from southern New England to the Southeast and the lower Mississippi Valley.
However, the SPC has also placed portions of the Plains and Upper Midwest at a level 2 out of 5 on its thunderstorm risk scale.
Cities from Denver to Omaha, Nebraska, and Minneapolis-St.
Paul will need to download the free FOX Weather app and enable notifications to be alerted to any severe weather warnings in the area.
Severe storms turned deadly over the July 4th weekend
The severe weather threat this week comes after deadly thunderstorms produced tree damage in more than a dozen states across the mid-Mississippi and Tennessee valleys on Saturday.
At least one person was killed in St. Louis after police there said a tree fell onto a car, killing the female driver.
According to a report from FOX 2 in St. Louis, the woman, who was the only person in the vehicle, was sitting in her car to wait out the storm when the tree fell.
According to witnesses, the woman was responsive after the incident, but it took about 30 minutes to get through to 911.
The woman later died from her injuries, FOX 2 reported.
