INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl spawned at least one tornado and threatened flooding Wednesday as the system headed toward Canada and the northeastern United States after killing millions in the Houston area. without power.
Beryl, which made landfall in Texas on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, was a post-tropical cyclone centered over southeastern Michigan around midday Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 30 mph (45 kph), the National Weather Service reported.
A flood watch was issued for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and rainfall warnings were issued for parts of southern Canada. The storm dumped between 3 and 6 inches of rain in northern Indiana, saturating the ground and threatening to bring down trees due to high winds forecast for Wednesday afternoon.
Parts of upstate New York and New England could see heavy rain Wednesday, meteorologist Bob Oravec said. After Thursday, only a few showers are expected in New England, he added.
A tornado hit Posey County in southwestern Indiana on Tuesday, authorities said. The storm destroyed much of a warehouse, tore off roofs, derailed train cars and damaged mobile homes. No injuries were reported.
Jerrod Prather, supervisor of Nutrien Ag Solutions, told the Evansville Courier and Press that he watched the tornado with a security camera.
“I saw it go down, then back up, then back down again,” he said.
Beryl The coronavirus has caused at least seven deaths in the United States (one in Louisiana and six in Texas) and at least 11 in the Caribbean. More than 1.6 million homes and businesses in Texas were still without power as of Wednesday morning, down from a peak of more than 2.7 million on Monday, according to PowerOutage.us. More than 56,000 homes and businesses were without power in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
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Associated Press writer Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Maryland, contributed to this report.
