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Tornadoes, hail, power outages sweep across US as intense storms roll east

Tornadoes, hail, power outages sweep across US as intense storms roll east

USA Today31-03-2025

Tornadoes, hail, power outages sweep across US as intense storms roll east More than 400,000 homes and businesses in five states were without power in the latest bout of severe weather that has left at least 2 dead.
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Hail pours down as storms strike the Upper Midwest
Hail piled up in Minnesota and Michigan as strong storms swept through the Upper Midwest.
More than 400,000 homes and businesses in five states were without power Monday as severe weather blasted a corridor from Texas to Michigan with damaging winds, hail and possible tornadoes.
Tornadoes sightings were reported in Missouri, Tennessee and Michigan as a warm front collided with colder air. Tens of millions of residents through the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and central Gulf Coast can expect more large hail, strong winds and tornadoes Monday, the National Weather Service warned.
Two deaths Sunday were blamed on the storm. A truck driver was killed in Valparaiso, Indiana, when strong winds blew over his vehicle. And a man was killed in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, when a storm knocked a tree onto a mobile home.
Extensiver power outages stretched across Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana, along with Louisiana and Mississippi.
Accuweather warned that a line of storms across the Southeast may ease Monday afternoon, a separate line may develop later in the day and advance across Virginia and the Carolinas. Richmond, Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida, are forecast to face intense storms on Monday as the storm system makes its way to the coast, AccuWeather said.
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A secondary storm will begin to shift out of the Rockies and across the Plains from early to midweek, AccuWeather said. The greatest chance for severe weather comes Tuesday as the storm gathers energy and becomes more organized across the Central states.
Another round of tornadoes, large hail and destructive wind gusts is forecast for Wednesday − again from northeastern Texas to Michigan.
"Wednesday could end up being a carbon copy of Sunday, in terms of storm position and expected intensity," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Bill Deger.

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