Big storms roll across Gulf Coast as East bakes with record heat
States along the Gulf Coast were under severe weather threats Monday as a storm system that spun up ferocious tornadoes across the central U.S. over the weekend – killing at least four people and inflicting widespread damage – moved over the region.
Elsewhere on Monday, record heat was possible along the East Coast, forecasters said, as high temperatures were expected to approach 90 degrees in the mid-Atlantic.
Powerful thunderstorms rolled across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana through the morning and into the afternoon, raising the threat of damaging wind gusts, large hail and flash floods with up to 2 to 3 inches of rain falling per hour in some areas, according to the National Weather Service.
The worst of the heavy rain and thunderstorms was forecast to be offshore by the evening.
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