Severe storms sweeping from the Midwest to the Northeast

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After days of stormy weather across the Midwest, the pattern is shifting east just in time for the weekend.

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00:00This is part of our top story, the multi-day severe weather threat through the Midwest and Ohio Valley.

00:05As mentioned last night, severe storms brought tornadoes, 90 to 95 mph wind gusts, and massive hail to the plains and the Midwest.

00:13We can take you now to Scottsville, Kentucky. This is south of Bowling Green.

00:17There's a stormy scene, 85 degrees right now.

00:20We've been dealing with some pretty aggressive thunderstorm activity into Kentucky and also into Indiana and Wisconsin.

00:27So a lot of different areas are facing some of these storms.

00:29So we have strong and severe thunderstorms around. A little breeze there in Scottsville.

00:33And you can see that this is the area here where the thunderstorms are roaming on in.

00:38Not quite severe, but certainly an active scene in Scottsville, Kentucky right now.

00:43Heading farther east, we are talking about areas like southern places like Madison County and Garrett County,

00:51areas around Lincoln and Casey Counties, eastern Boyle, eastern Mercer County,

00:55still into Jessamine County under a severe thunderstorm warning.

00:58All of Lexington, Fayette County, at least most of it except for up near the horse park, under a severe thunderstorm warning.

01:03And also into Clark County, Winchester, under a severe thunderstorm threat here as these storms have been rumbling.

01:10And we've had a little wind out there. Tyrone, Kentucky and Anderson County, trees down.

01:14And another area farther south into Taylor County, trees and power lines down.

01:19Louisville, you've had some strong storms.

01:21Jefferson Town there, a tree fell through the roof of a house. That's a problem in Jefferson Town.

01:25That's a neighborhood on the east side of Louisville.

01:28And also a large tree onto a garage and then into St. Matthews, a little west of the other reports, trees down as well.

01:36That was a nasty storm into Jefferson County.

01:39Heading a little farther north, we can find that there are some slow-moving storms moving through Ohio.

01:44Lightning indicators, there's a lot of that out there, but most of these are not quite fully severe.

01:50And I want to take one last big step up into the Chicago metro and also into Wisconsin.

01:56Slow-moving storms are approaching Chicago. They are not severe at this point.

02:00We do have some slow-moving flash flood concerns.

02:03The storms here into Wisconsin really are moving so slowly that they're just dumping too much rain over a prolonged period of time.

02:10So parts of western Oshawa County and eastern Adams County are facing some of the biggest flash flood threats.

02:17The current view of temperatures across the north-central and northeastern U.S.

02:22It's warm, but the storms are keeping temperatures a little bit lower than they would be otherwise.

02:27So overall, it's warm enough. It's 92 in Washington, D.C., but other areas are enjoying the cool-down.

02:33For example, Minneapolis, 75 there, looking pretty sharp.

02:37And as we look at the overall storm setup for this evening, a new severe thunderstorm watch just issued for eastern Kentucky

02:44and into a couple of counties of western Virginia, southwest West Virginia,

02:47basically carrying the conversation forward east of Interstate 75 as these storms will still be strong to severe.

02:53So look out there into places like Pikeville, Kentucky this evening.

02:57There will be more storms on Friday into the area around New Jersey and Pennsylvania, New York State,

03:03southern parts of the New England states as well.

03:06And on Saturday, more of the same, but we're going to begin to trim away the western storm threat,

03:11and it becomes a bit more restrictive, but still widespread for the east coast on Saturday evening.

03:17So Friday, showers and thunderstorms with us here for the Ohio Valley and into the mid-Atlantic coast.

03:22Also, some storminess up to the north.

03:24We don't want any more flash flooding in Vermont, that's for sure.

03:27But Friday, you can see that many areas from eastern Kentucky, southeast Ohio could see another round of storms,

03:32and these will also be moving through the Piedmont of the Carolinas and up into areas near, say, Harrisburg and into Frederick, Maryland.

03:40Saturday, the storm is just trudging east.

03:43Our low-pressure system, instead of being plotted over Indiana, we took it one state east.

03:48It's over Xenia, Ohio more or less, and we're going to see more storms east of there.

03:52And the severe potential on Saturday is mainly southeast Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,

03:58into eastern central Virginia, and the heart of the Carolinas, mainly from Charlotte east into Raleigh.

04:04Sunday, we're still stormy at times for the east coast.

04:07This system moves in, and it doesn't really leave anytime soon, so we have more downpours.

04:12On Sunday, this is unrelated to the tropical threat that you're going to soon hear about from Bernie and Ari,

04:17but this is just tropical moisture unrelated to our developing system.

04:22Trough holding this in place, downpours, so drought relief will be a good thing,

04:26but we don't want the travel delays that are associated with this.

04:29So on Sunday, with more widespread showers and storms in the eastern part of the map,

04:33we're going to be dealing with still warm, but not as hot weather.

04:37So mid to upper 80s for some to the south, mid 80s into Boston, Burlington, and Banger.

04:42Still steamy, high humidity, scattered storms in all these areas.

04:45Once you step west to the mountains, it's going to be brighter and drier,

04:49and the heat begins to build once again up into St. Louis and Kansas City.

04:53Des Moines 93 is a popular number, 90 in Chicago.

04:56There's a weak disturbance that will track across the northern plains,

04:59bringing some showers to Minneapolis, but that should be about it.

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