Severe Risk to End Sunday in Boston, Albany, Pittsburgh

By Brian Lada, Meteorologist

July 19,2015; 9:52PM,EDT

 

 

The weekend will end with severe thunderstorms threatening the Northeast with a separate area targeting the central Plains.
The thunderstorms targeting the Northeast will develop ahead of the same cold front that produced severe thunderstorms over the Great Lakes earlier in the weekend.

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"The majority of the strongest thunderstorms will rumble into the evening and will produce damaging winds, hail and flooding downpours," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.
Pydynowski also added that an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out with these storms.
Cities at risk include Burlington, Vermont; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Albany and Syracuse, New York; Pittsburgh; Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. The danger also extends across the Canadian border to Toronto and Ottawa.

Cities along the mid-Atlantic's I-95 corridor will be far enough east to avoid being hit by Sunday's storms, but the same cannot said in New England.
Severe thunderstorms that erupt across the interior of New England will approach Boston and Portland, Maine, Sunday night.
With this weekend being one of the hottest so far this summer in the Northeast and Ohio Valley, some people might be planning to spend Sunday afternoon in the pool to help beat the heat.
If you are one of these people, you should keep an ear to the sky and get out of the pool if thunder rumbles.
Additionally, the National Lightning Safety Institute recommends that you wait 30 minutes after the last clap of thunder is heard before re-entering the pool.
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The threat for severe thunderstorms will not only be limited to the Northeast.
The weekend will also end with severe weather erupting across far eastern Colorado and spreading to northern Kansas and southern Nebraska overnight. The severe weather threat will be greatest across western parts of Kansas and Nebraska than the east.
Storms in this part of the country will produce damaging winds, hail and flooding downpours.

Drier air is forecast to filter across the Northeast for Monday in the wake of the late-weekend storms, but temperatures will still soar along the I-95 corridor with the hottest day so far this year shaping up for Boston.
However, more showers and thunderstorms, some severe, will target the lower Midwest.