(Bloomberg) — Another round of storms swept into the eastern US from Lake Erie to Florida on Sunday after a deadly track of tornadoes and severe weather knocked out power to thousands across the Mississippi Valley and the South this weekend.
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More than 50 million people from western New York to central Florida were in the track of the storm, the Storm Prediction Center said. Tornadoes are still a threat in some regions, though many of the watches had expired by Sunday afternoon.
“Severe thunderstorms will bring scattered damaging wind swaths and a few tornadoes this afternoon and evening across parts of the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast,” the National Weather Service forecast said.
The danger comes after at least 36 people died across six states since the massive storm system moved across the US beginning last week. Twelve died in Missouri, and Governor Mike Kehoe has declared a state of emergency.
President Donald Trump said his administration is ready to help local and state authorities in recovery efforts.
“We are actively monitoring the severe tornadoes and storms that have impacted many States across the South and Midwest — 36 innocent lives have been lost, and many more devastated,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The outbreak was part of a larger series of storms forecasters have been watching since last week that also raised wildfire risks across the Great Plains.
It also comes just weeks after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service, fired hundreds of newly hired workers under the Trump administration’s reduction of the federal workforce. The powerful storms are typical of this time of year as the northern hemisphere transitions into spring.
At least 66 tornado reports have been turned into the Storm Prediction Center since Friday. More than 304,000 customers were without power across eight states in the South and Midwest early Sunday, PowerOutage.us said. Some 267,000 customers across five states were without power as of 7:45 p.m. Sunday.
(Updates with latest forecast, Trump remarks.)
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