Severe storms pummel parts of US with snow and high winds and raise tornado threat [View all]
Source: AP
By SOPHIA TAREEN, GARY D. ROBERTSON and MATTHEW BROWN
Updated 11:05 PM CDT, March 15, 2026
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CHICAGO (AP) — Successive punches of snow and wind were set to impact the eastern half of the United States on Monday as severe weather swept across much of the nation and made roads impassable in the Upper Midwest.
Forecasters said mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., were at greatest risk for high winds and tornadoes. The cold front was expected to move off the East Coast by Tuesday, bringing sharply colder weather in its wake, forecasters said.
The late winter blast comes as Hawaii continued to be affected by a separate storm system that caused severe flooding over the weekend.
Forecasters warn about line of storms, tornadoes
The National Weather Service that warned a line of severe storms with damaging winds would cross much of the Eastern U.S. After firing up Sunday, the storms were crossing the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys.
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