{"id":139936,"date":"2026-03-16T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:03:09","slug":"tornado-watch-covers-eastern-pennsylvania-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139936\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado watch covers eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch<\/a> Monday from Maryland to New Jersey lasting until 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

The possible tornadoes<\/a> would accompany severe thunderstorms characterized by high winds, said the NWS out of Philadelphia\/Mount Holly. A separate wind advisory was also in effect until 2 a.m. Tuesday, predicting south winds of 25 mph to 35 mph south winds with gusts as high as 50 mph, potentially interfering with travel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles. Use extra caution,\u201d the federal agency said. \u201cSecure outdoor objects.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wind advisory covered central, northern, northwest and southern New Jersey, as well as east central, northeast and southeast Pennsylvania, the NWS said. Parts of central, northern and southern Delaware and northeast Maryland were also in the windy line of fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few tornadoes<\/a>, including the possibility of an especially intense tornado, cannot be ruled out, especially from near the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metro areas through Virginia and into North Carolina,\u201d AccuWeather chief meteorologist Jon Porter said on the private weather service\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

In weather considered highly unusual for this time of year, and rare at any time for this part of the country, the usual tug-of-war between departing winter and incoming spring was more marked than usual, NWS meteorologist Joe Pollina told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarch is a transition month between winter and spring, so you typically do see more active weather,\u201d Pollina said. \u201cSo there\u2019s that battleground there. But yeah, it\u2019s not totally normal to see a tornado watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hail was also invited to the party, as the NWS Mount Holly flagged the possibility of \u201cisolated hail up to quarter size\u201d in its public advisory.<\/p>\n

The severe weather was a storm system that began in the Midwest<\/a> on Sunday and moved east into the Appalachian Mountains early Monday and then to the East Coast to wreak \u201csevere thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes,\u201d Accuweather meteorologists said.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the country there were blizzard conditions in parts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, torrential rains with flooding in Hawaii, and an early bout of extreme heat in the Southwest. In all, more than 200 million people were under threat<\/a> from some variety of dangerous weather on Monday, Accuweather said.<\/p>\n

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