***Strong to severe storms possible in D.C. area Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Isolated damaging winds or hail possible, with an outside chance of a tornado.
After multiple damaging tornadoes spun up in the Mid-Atlantic on Monday, a renewed threat of isolated severe weather is in the forecast today. Showers and thunderstorms are predicted to bubble up in the heat of the day later this afternoon, yielding the risk of strong to locally damaging winds, hail and the outside chance of a tornado.
The storm risk comes as severe weather is possible for about 90 million people from Texas to Pennsylvania.
Storms at a glance
Storm timing: 3 to 6 p.m. along Interstate 81; 4 to 8 p.m. for the Washington metro area.
Areas affected: Entire region, roughly from Virginia Tidewater to north of Baltimore.
Primary impacts: Heavy rain and lightning and the chance of isolated strong to damaging winds and up to quarter-size hail.
Also a chance of an isolated tornado, especially near and south of Washington.
The storms this afternoon and evening are likely to be more widespread than they were on Monday across the D.C. region. As shown in the surface forecast map below, we are deeper into the warm sector of a low-pressure system sliding across New England. A cold front approaches from the west, and a trough of low pressure should become established in the lee of the Appalachians.'>>>
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