Milwaukee: Tornado touches in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the middle of a strong storm that causes extensive damage that contributes to the death of a man who crashed into a fallen tree and official officials said Thursday.
National weather service confirmed two tornadoes touched at Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday afternoon, sending fallen trees and flying debris.
Struggling roads and highways.
The Courier Times of Bucks County reported one of the tornadoes in Pennsylvania which damaged a car dealer and a car home garden.
Public Security Director of Bensalem Police Fred Harran said four people were injured at the car dealer in Bensalem, and the fifth was injured in the nearest business.
All injuries are considered not life-threatening.
Anthony Perez, an employee at the dealer, said the weather warnings were heard on the phone right before the tornado hit.
“At that time, we were looking for a shelter,” he said.
“Everything is in Flash.” Severe weather is worries along the east coast, with weather services publishing warnings in New Jersey too.
In Wisconsin, strong winds moving across the state of the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan began Wednesday night.
At 2 o’clock in the morning, Thursday, many Tornado warnings around the country had expired.
A few hours later, a man died when he hit his vehicle to a fallen tree and marched near the city of Ripon around 6am.
Thursday, Wisconsin State Journal reported.
The national weather service surveyed areas hit by Southeast Wisconsin and confirmed one tornado, perhaps rated EF1, causing damage around the Jefferson Community of Concord Regency, dropping agricultural buildings.
Cows can be seen grazing among debris that landed in the farm field.
On Thursday afternoon, the weather service confirmed at least two other tornadoes were also responsible for damage near Waukesha and Watertown.
Governor Tony Evers signed a declaration that imposed an emergency in Wisconsin.
The Evers command directs state agents to help those affected by the storm.
It also allows national guards to be activated to support local authorities with recovery efforts.
Weather services on Wednesday warned that severe weather swept the upper middle state can include hurricanes and tornadoes and developed into a rare type of storm that is often described as inland storms.
Andy Boxell, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Sullivan, said Derecho did not materialize.
“That’s not what we have last night,” he told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The utility crew works to restore services to thousands of power customers.
Electricity was eliminated to around 90,000 customers throughout Wisconsin, according to the tracking.us website poweroutage.