That is right, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing they are getting hit north of the poconos into new york state, the last 15 minutes close to 3,000 lightning strikes, most of the energy with this line of storm is missing up to the north and more developing near washington, d. C. And the actually system is in the ohio valley. A storm warning in affect until 9 00 tonight, most wont see the storms but if you do gusty winds of more than 60 Miles Per Hour and lightning and isolated hail with this system and the atmosphere is getting a lot more juicy tomorrow. As we begin to tap into moisture from this. This is Tropical Storm arthur, you can see the eye wall is forming now and strength ening and that shows the winds, sustained up to 65 Miles Per Hour and moving slowly and it will continue to do so and unfortunately for our region, there is really no big change on the computer forecast model. Though all keep it offshore but a category one hurricane and that will cause rip currents on the
Rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate area tonight. Lets begin with double scan radar and cecily tynan at the action news
Way it looked in manayunk tonight, lightening, thunder, and absolutely torrential rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate a
Homicide, they will look into it, if it has to do with Social Security checks, they will pursue that avenue. They have not been able to contact her son, william, he remains missing, but they are told that some intermediate contact has been established. They say he wanted to keep cashing her Social Security checks. I believe he is in the wind, working with the District Attorneys Office and what options to take and what is the next move. Police tonight say that that autopsy, may not be completed until sometime next week. Live in feltonville, vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. We have this just in to action news tonight, new Jersey State Police confirms that one person was killed in an accident that we reported at 4 00 on route 55 in depford, new jersey, chopper 6 was off the scene near the depford mall, the vehicle apparently went off the roadway and crashed into a wooded wear, its not clear what caused him to lose control of the vehicle. As more information becomes available
And its crossing 22 and the past 15 minutes 196 lightning strikes also reporting 60 Miles Per Hour winds and even small hail. This shows you that they are reporting hail about an inch in diameter. These storm systems have a lot of lift with them and they are intense. Not everyone will get them but those that do will see the potential for downpours, and lightning and even hail and winds. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the bulk of this weather is missing us to the north but the whole cold front is out to the west and this is slowly moving in our direction, this is setting up a severe storm pattern until 9 00 tonight for bulk of our viewing area because of the buildup of heat and humidity and we have Tropical Storm arthur lets head to adam joseph. The storms are isolated tonight, where they hit they are strong and everyone is in that summer soup, its 94 degrees in philadelphia, 91 in wilmington and 95 in dover and the lehigh valley, its cooler with thunderstorms that pass through