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A guard shields himself from the rain at a worksite in Newark, N.J., on Tuesday.
Updated at 10:30 p.m. ET: Tornado watches were issued for much of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic on Tuesday, part of a storm front that brought high winds and heavy rain. More than 50,000 lost power and air travel was disrupted across the region.
Major cities within the tornado watches included New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The watches also cover parts of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
Wind gusts up to 70 mph are possible in those areas, the National Weather Service said in issuing the watches, some of which run through 11 p.m. ET.
Airport travel was disrupted by winds throughout the day across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, the FAA said on its flight delay website.
In Wildwood, N.J., wind gusts ripped the facade off a store, NBCNewYork.com reported. In Ridgewood, N.J., winds toppled a tree onto the roof of a home. No injuries were reported in either incident.
Some 4,000 homes and businesses lost power on Long Island, the NBC station added.
In Connecticut, 15,000 customers had lost power, NBCConnecticut.com reported.
Localized flooding is also a danger from parts of the Appalachians into the Northeast, weather.com reported.
Some 28,000 homes and businesses lost power Tuesday afternoon in the Washington and Baltimore areas, NBCWashington.com noted.
In Pennsylvania, about 24,000 power customers lost power, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported.
The weather looks better Wednesday into the remainder of the week, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s through Friday and partly or mostly sunny skies.
The same system on Monday caused flooding in parts of Tennessee. More than 5 inches of rain fell in Putnam County, where 8 water rescues were reported.
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Its really windy right now. Hopefully won't get any worse.
"The LORD has HIS Way in the Whirlwind and in the Storm. The Clouds are the Dust of HIS Feet." Nahum 1:3 Have YOUR Way LORD!
The Lord missed DC. He needs to go back and clean it out for good.
Good thing climate change is all a hoax or I would be worried this is a sign of things to come.
I've never seen what looks like almost the entire east coast under tornado watch.
Global warming.
Here in central NC we're under a serious storm right now. Very scary after last year's tornadoes.
it is really just from North Carolina up to South Central New York State that is in a tornado watch. The MSNBC graphic just shows where general severe weather is possible, not the actual tornado watches. While this is not a frequent kind of thing, I see it at least a couple times a year. Nothing too out of the ordinary.
How is this national news?
Because it's affecting NYC. The USA revolves around NYC according to MSNBC and TWC!
Well its true. Where do all the superheroes reside?
Can you imagine how bad it would be IF there was global warming? Pray we are not too late or keep your heads in the sand.
Nope, not a chance of it being global warming. Normal weather pattern for the fall. Fairly strong cold front (it's cooling off up north) mixing it up with warmer, moister air. Can cause thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes.
But some unedcated people like to pretrend it is global warming.
It's bad when Mass is under Tornado Warnings... After the last few years, the weather has gotten worse.
At least you guys are getting rain unlike the majority of the country. Of course, tornadoes are not a good thing. Good luck and keep your eyes to the sky.
repubs do not believe in globel warming, they blame everything on Obama
Global warming is pseudoscience based on probability and statistics, not real science.
Liberals play the Blame game 24/7. Ever since they learned to Spell George Bush
MOTHER NATURE has a way of taking care the earth, if it is globel warming then we have created it and now there isn't much we can do about it can we? maybe if we tried harder to stop poluting every thing, we may have a chance but knowing how greedy people are and how much the almighty dollar means to all the big companies are, i have little hope we will be here in the next 10 years,
Most of these States are Liberal States and they already have their hands out for Federal Money
Tonado's possibly in CT....MA.....now what state is IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO STATES???? RHODE ISLAND....we never make it on the map, what....the weather is just going to skip on by us? Not that it matters as I don't know what Rhode Islanders would do if a tornado hit..we have NO sirens....I can just see all our volunteer fireman running around with a bull horn.......Now, What is the prettiest, smallest state.....yes!!! Rhode Island!!!