Severe thunderstorms brought destructive winds, baseball-sized hail and a couple of tornadoes across the Midwest and mid-South on Sunday, and more severe weather is expected Monday in the eastern United States.
A level 3 out of 5 enhanced risk of severe weather has been drawn by the Storm Prediction Center and encompasses much of the Interstate 95 corridor, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C., Richmond, Virginia Beach and Raleigh.
A tornado struck Johnson County, Ind., a suburb on the south side of Indianapolis. It whirled between interstates 69 and 65, carving through subdivisions and terrorizing the towns of Waverly, New Whitehead and Greenwood. Seventy-five homes were damaged along the tornado’s approximately three-mile path.
, where strong winds toppled a tree onto a home. There were numerous other reports of damaging winds with Sunday’s storms, including in Jackson, Miss., where a gust up to 76 mph was clocked at the airport. A gust of 80 mph snapped six utility poles along Highway 64 in Shelby County, Tenn., which includes Memphis, and an equally-strong burst of winds threw a pop-up camper and snapped trees in Portsmouth, Va.
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