Deadly Winter Storm Spawns 19 Tornadoes, Major Flooding And Power Outages Across Eastern U.S.

A Powerful winter storm that wreaked havoc across parts of Eastern U.S. on Thursday, February 6, 2020, produced 19 tornadoes, the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed on Sunday, February 9, 2020. The storm sparked flooding and caused power outages that affected 300,000 people. Five people died in weather-related incidents.

On Friday, February 7, more than 300,000 homes and businesses were left without power as the storm caused widespread outages, with North Carolina bearing the brunt, followed by Pennsylvania, according to poweroutages.us.

These were the states under high wind and winter weather advisories issued by the NWS. On Saturday, February 8, NWS Eastern Region reported 17 twisters across the region from Thursday to Friday, February 6 to 7. “This includes 2 EF-2s, 8 EF-1s, and 7 EF-0s,” the agency said. On Sunday, two more tornadoes were confirmed, bringing the overall count to 19 and the totals by state to 8 in North Carolina, 5 in Maryland, 2 each in South Carolina and Georgia, and 1 each in Virginia and Florida. -Full Report