Severe weather continued to batter swaths of the United States on Monday, with nearly 250,000 utility customers waking up without power across the country from California to Michigan, while tornadoes were reported overnight in parts of the central U.S.
Parts of Oklahoma were under a string of tornado warnings into the early hours of Monday morning, with multiple tempests reported across the state. The National Weather Service in Norman said at least one tornado had been confirmed.
Power was knocked out to thousands amid the severe weather, with more than 36,000 utility customers still without power as of early Monday, according to online outage tracker PowerOutage.us.
Outages were also reported for thousands of utility customers in nearby states Texas and Missouri, according to the website.
The National Weather Service warned that dry and windy surface conditions were expected to add to an elevated risk of fire weather over parts of southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles, eastern New Mexico and down to the Big Bend of Texas on Monday.
Snow, rain and possible tornadoes in parts of U.S.
As states in the central U.S. grapple with the aftermath of the severe weather, other parts of the country face snow, rain, strong winds and possible tornadoes this week.
“A deep mid-latitude cyclone will spread showers and thunderstorms across of the Midwest Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic today,” the National Weather Service said on Monday.
The weather service’s storm prediction center has issued a Slight Risk warning of severe thunderstorms over parts of the Ohio Valley due to the risk of potentially damaging gusts “and a few tornadoes.”
Meanwhile, a “swath of snow and ice are expected (to) spread across the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast today while a secondary low pressure system develops and the pair of surface waves drift slowly toward the East Coast,” it said.
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