Parts of the Mid-Atlantic & Southeast from GA to the Delmarva is next in line for severe storms today!!!

After blasting parts through the Ohio Valley and Northeast on Thursday, the same storm system that brought severe weather to millions of people will shift into the Southeast to end the workweek.

Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh and Norfolk are among the major cities at risk for damaging storms packing strong winds, torrential rain and even some hail.

Fortunately, the scope and magnitude of Thursday's outbreak should not be duplicated across the Southeast later today.

Storms will be scattered and driven by daytime heating across much of the mid-Atlantic and South, but figure to be particularly powerful along a corridor extending from northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee into South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and the Delmarva peninsula.

Thunderstorms are a common occurrence across the South at this time of year, but the magnitude of the storms beginning this afternoon may catch those starting their weekends early off guard.

Powerful wind gusts in excess of 50 mph, high enough to bring down tree limbs and power lines, will accompany some storms. The strong winds combined with heavy rain will reduce visibility to nearly zero for some motorists.
Some small hail could be coupled with the storms as well, but the stones should not be large enough to cause any major damage.

Severe weather will also be possible in a separate area across the lower Midwest from Michigan south into Indiana, northern Kentucky, Ohio and far-western Pennsylvania as yet another area of low pressure pushes east.

Many of these areas are still reeling after Thursday's storms.

Brief damaging wind gusts and some hail will be the primary threat faced from storms as they push through cities such as Detroit, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati and Louisville.
[link to www.accuweather.com]

anyone in the line of storms?

So many homes look like this in Elmira, NY after a probable tornado came through. [link to twitter.com]

I'm in GA and right now it's real nice. I'm north of Atlanta.

this storm is not for now... only later today

NWS will conduct a #damage survey in Elmira, NY. That may be the state's first #tornado of 2012.

1 minJohnny Kelly‏@stormchaser4850

Mud and debris in landslide slammed into a Pennsylvania home overnight; no injuries reported [link to DON'T_USE-THIS]

I was sure we were going to get nailed last night but it fizzled out before it got here

today tho maybe we get it..thanks for the warning

2 minJohnny Kelly‏@stormchaser4850

Photos of storm damage across Elmira, NY after reported tornado on Thursday [link to www.examiner.com]

Hey Luis
They are saying right now that we have a 40% chance of rain and storms for this afternoon(metro Atlanta) I sure hope it doesn't get bad.

If you have any update, please post it. I will post anything i get! Thank's!

Thanks Luisport. We DID get slammed lst night. I have never seen so much lightning for such a prolonged period of time! The lightning went on for close to 2 hours and it was windy!
But the rain did not cme for almost an hour later. Read that NY got hit with a tornado on RSOE.

Don't want anything bad, but we could sure use the rain here in the GA flatlands.

Yes this tornado was nasty... i hope things could be more calm today. Thank's!

Coastal Delaware here. Thanks for the warning, I chk GLP before I chk other news sources nowadays.

I Was Struck by Lightning, 'In a Sense' Shortly after the first crack of thunder in Thursday’s summer storm, the lights in my home flickered off then back on again, so quickly that the clock on my stove didn’t have time to reset itself and still gave an accurate time of 7:17. I counted myself lucky and hoped that would be the worst of the storm for me.

I still count myself lucky — very lucky — but the short outage was not the worst of it.

Less than 20 minutes later I was looking at photos and a video of the storm uploaded to our Facebook page as a bolt of lightning shot overhead and the room suddenly exploded with arcs of blue light. Sparks of static electricity shot out of my hands and my hair literally stood on end.

After letting out a few curses in shock, I assessed myself and seemed to be unharmed except for a crick in my neck from jolting back from the sparks. My heart was racing, arms shaking and I could feel the static coming off my hair as I ran my hand over my head.

A few minutes more (closer to a half hour, in truth), I was starting to feel normal again and the realization settled that a passing bolt of lightning might have just electrocuted me.

I had seen countless lightning storms before (one particularly awesome front comes to mind, driving through a long, flat stretch of Georgia), even seen lightning strike down and felt the force of it in the air around me, but never had I experienced anything like this.

So, to sate my curiosity I called up Whisconier Middle School (WMS) science teacher Geoff Bergen to help me understand exactly what happened.

In Bergen’s assessment one of two things likely occurred. One possible scenario was that a bolt of lightning forked and one of the less powerful prongs struck a conduit on my home (possibly the old television antennae on the roof that is still attached to a ground wire), grounding itself but leaving behind a mess of charged ions to shock me.

The other possibility — a chilling option — is that the crackle in the air around me was the prelude to a failed lightning bolt headed straight for my living room.

Despite what our eyes may tell us, bolts of lightning actually begin at the ground, Bergen explained, when an area of charged static electricity builds and works up to the clouds, creating the path for the lightning to ride from sky to Earth. The static coming from my hands and the arcs of electricity around the room is what others have reported seeing and feeling just before being struck by lightning.

“In a sense you were struck by lightning, but not really,” Bergen said. The charge built up, “but there was not enough to send the bolt to the ground.”

Either way, I seem to have dodged a lightning bolt.
[link to brookfield.patch.com]

Johnny Kelly‏@stormchaser4850

Update: Power companies report 107,000+ remain without power in PA and NY after yesterday's storms (12 pm EDT)

33 sJohnny Kelly‏@stormchaser4850

Web meteorologist (@quincyq03) for (@WTNH ) says SPC busted on yesterday's tornado watch in the Northeast [link to DON'T_USE-THIS]

They need the rain. It's hot as hell.

2 minJohnny Kelly‏@stormchaser4850

4 Polish hikers found dead in mountain range from apparent lightning strike [link to twitter.com]

Thur's storms dropped almost 400,000 lightning strikes from MO to CT [link to www.facebook.com]

4 minJohnny Kelly‏@stormchaser4850

President Obama declares major disaster declaration in Virginia following the June 29 derecho [link to DON'T_USE-THIS]

1 minBusiness Insider‏@businessinsider

The Multi-State Impact Of Yesterday's Storm [MAP] by @DinaSpector [link to read.bi]