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Big storm threat brewing from Iowa to Mid-Atlantic CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press CHICAGO — An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds was rolling through the Midwest on Wednesday and could affect more than one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland. Meteorologists were even about the possibility of a weather event called a derecho (deh-RAY’-choh), which is a storm of strong straightline winds spanning at least 240 miles. The storms are also likely to generate tornadoes and cause power outages that will be followed by oppressive heat, said Russell Schneider, director of the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. The weather service issued tornado warnings in several counties in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. “We’re becoming increasingly concerned that a major severe
weather event will unfold,” Schneider said. “The main thing is for folks to monitor conditions and have a plan for what to do if threatening weather approaches.” For the first time this year, the center was using its highest alert level for parts of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. In Chicago, Wednesday night’s White Sox game against the Toronto Blue Jays was postponed in anticipation of bad weather and airlines canceled more than 120 flights at O’Hare International Airport. The storms were expected to push into northwest Indiana early Wednesday evening. The Northern Indiana Public Service Co., the region’s largest utility, said it was increasing staff at its customer call center and scheduling extra work crews to handle any outages. In Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh was adding public safety and public works personnel and repositioning
some equipment to prepare for possible flooding or downed trees and wires, the Pittsburgh PostGazette reported. All told, the area the weather service considers to be under heightened risk of dangerous weather includes 74.7 million people in 19 states. Tornadoes and a derecho can happen at the same time, but at any given place Wednesday the straight-line winds are probably more likely. Straight-line winds lack the rotation that twisters have, but they can still cause considerable damage as they blow down trees and other objects. “Be prepared to move away from windows,” Schneider said. Listen for weather warnings and go into a basement, if possible, and get underneath a study object like a table, he said, if a tornado warning is issued. “You want to know where your family’s at so everyone can get to safety successfully.”