Violent derecho with 90-mph winds carved a 500-mile path of damage across the Midwest

4 dead in Pennsylvania as severe weather hits from Texas to New York

Scott Olson/Getty Images (PITTSBURGH) — Four people have died in Pennsylvania as severe storms hammered much of the U.S. on Tuesday night. A long-lived destructive thunderstorm wind event, known as a derecho, traveled more than 500 miles from eastern Indiana through central Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon. Wind gusts reached 80 mph as the more than 60-mile-wide storm complex knocked down trees and power lines along its destructive path. In Fra…

Violent derecho with 90-mph winds carved a 500-mile path of damage across the Midwest

Another day of extreme weather is brewing in the United States Wednesday after violent storms roared through more than a dozen states on Tuesday and turned deadly.