New York Under Tornado Watch as Storms Cross Northeast

The New York City area and parts of the Northeast from Pennsylvania to Maine are under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. as severe thunderstorms move through the region, the National Weather Service said.

“We’re expecting tornadoes, hail up to 2 inches in diameter, thunderstorm wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour and dangerous lightning,” Lauren Nash, an agency meteorologist in Upton, New York, said in a telephone interview. “We have a cold front out to the west and another disturbance ahead of that cold front that is going to fire up these storms.”