severe thunderstorms are threatening the mid-atlantic and parts of the southeast. damaging winds, flooding, possible tornadoes all in the first alert forecast. the same massive system hammered the midwest yesterday. it reportedly produced more than a dozen twisters along with powerful winds and heavy hail across several states. the storm left a path of destruction in places including iowa, ohio, and northern illinois. cutting off power to tens of thousands. earlier today, the storm triggered water spouts over a river in maryland as folks in d.c. and beyond braced for more severe weather. rick reichmuth in the extreme weather center. at one point they reported a tornado on the ground near d.c. yeah, there was. just to the north of d.c. to the south of baltimore. that activity is gone. take a look though at the last 24 hours of this storm. started with those big thunderstorms last evening around fox report. and then it became the derecho that moved overnight. can you see this bending r
severe thunderstorm watch box. still in effect until around 1:00 in the morning here is that line of thunderstorms moves on through. and there is one tornado warning here that we re watching just to the north in atlanta. places like rosewell and cobb county fulton county under tornado warning there northern suburbs. also watching big storms move across areas of the northeast towards the new york city area and this batch here is about to move over long island so some big flooding concerns continued there. some spots have seen 3 to a inches of rain already and maybe another inch or so of rain. we will see more rain as well across the mid-atlantic before this finally gets out of here. about 12 states shep have flash flooding going on or flood watches or warnings that is down from 15. that s the good news. once this is gone, this weak certainly improving. southeast been so hot. bring relief for temperatures for those people. all right, rick? shepard: thank you, sir. you bet. hermine
just check back in with chad meyers who has more on the tornado that devastated oklahoma. chad, very sad news just before that break there. the death toll we believe has now risen to at least 91 people, including 20 children. it really is a devastating incident. yeah, this was a very big storm. not only that tornado but we ve had severe weather in chicago and milwaukee and all the way down even into texas. so this was a big system itself, and one tornado really ran over a metropolitan area, and just to add insult to injury, there is a rand new severe thunderstorm watch box right over the area that they re trying to get the recovery done in, and now there are more severe thunderstorms firing south of that area moving on up toward the rescuers here south of oklahoma city. that would be mao moore right there north of that word norman and now a new severe thunderstorm watch box to the very early of tomorrow morning like they need that just to keep
head through tonight and into tomorrow. the threat certainly diminishing for moore here. we re not quite done yet with the storm system. right now we basically have a squall line here there are no no tornado warnings. watches continue which means conditions are favorable. let s zoom into the place. we will get it finally tomorrow. moore, we have had a few showers rolling through. we still have a severe thunderstorm watch box here. but no tornado watches for the area that got hit today. all of that will transcend to the east. this is the area we re going to watch, dallas, shreveport, little rock. we re going to get the heat back and also the potential for the strong storms to develop once again. guys? all right. thank you so much. appreciate it. we re going to be taking a close
norman, oklahoma, which is close to moore, oklahoma, has now issued a tornado watch. it s a huge tornado watch box. this means anyone in this area has a chance of seeing a tornado as we go through about the next nine hours. it s all the way until 7:00 p.m. central daylight time. we have a severe thunderstorm watch box, and up where we have been dealing with the storms on and off all morning long, pretty much to the south of moore, and that may barely include the moore area, those are the storms trekking north of the red river, and then the tornado watch. there s not a lot of storms right now. yes, the tornado watch box went out about two to three hours before the tornado formed. they need to try to give people a two-hour notice. that means they think the storms will start to form around 1:00 local time. the area of greatest concern is the area of red. they re going to form and push across the map as we go through the morning hours. it looks like the strongest of the storms will be near