US EditionRecord rainfall forces evacuations and rescues in Oklahoma as a storm leaves 3 dead in Pennsylvania
- A powerful storm struck Pennsylvania and surrounding states on Tuesday and Wednesday, causing widespread outages and fatalities across the region.
- The storm resulted from severe straight-line winds gusting between 80 mph and 90 mph that downed trees and power lines over a broad area.
- More than 440,000 customers lost power in Pennsylvania and about 50,000 in Ohio, with thousands more affected in Michigan, New York, and West Virginia.
- Officials reported three fatalities related to the storm: a 22-year-old man who was electrocuted while attempting to extinguish a mulch fire near a utility pole, and a 67-year-old man who died after a tree fell on his home in Ross Township.
- The National Weather Service issued a warning for heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding across the southern Plains, with the highest threat concentrated near the Red River area extending into western Arkansas.
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Logan Co. Emergency Management monitoring flood situation amid rainy month
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Parts of Oklahoma and Texas see record rainfall after storm leaves 3 dead in Pennsylvania
Slow-moving thunderstorms dropped record rainfall across much of southern Oklahoma and northern Texas Wednesday, triggering flash flooding and forcing evacuations, as residents in Pennsylvania and Ohio picked up from a powerful storm that left more than half a million customers in the dark.
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