Washington, DC faces tornado threat as millions on East Coast brace for severe storms

WASHINGTON – Millions of people along the Interstate 95 corridor on the East Coast are bracing for the threat of severe weather on Sunday, with cities like Washington and Baltimore facing the risk of some tornadoes .

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has placed a large majority of the eastern U.S. from Georgia in the Southeast to the nation's capital in the mid-Atlantic in a Level 2 risk on its 5-point severe thunderstorm risk scale .

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This includes cities like Savannah in Georgia, Columbia in South Carolina , Wilmington and Raleigh in North Carolina , Richmond and Virginia Beach in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

The main threats from thunderstorms that develop will be damaging wind gusts and hail , but there’s also the risk of some tornadoes in the mid-Atlantic.

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