 of water in an area around New Gloucester and Lewiston-Auburn, in the southwest of the state. 30 million under tornado watch Monday's storms spawned tornado watches and warnings in 10 states, with about 30 million people under a tornado watch in the afternoon. Forecasters received more than 900 reports of wind damage, including nearly 300 from North Carolina and South Carolina, according to the Storm Prediction Center. A preliminary assessment of damage in Knoxville, Tennessee, found that an EF-2 tornado touched down on Monday, with winds up to 130mph (209kph) and a path as wide as 200 yards (183 metres). An EF-0 tornado with peak winds of 85 mph uprooted trees and damaged the outside of buildings near Lake Norman in North Carolina, the weather service's office in Greenville-Spartanburg confirmed. 'My rocking chairs flew off of my front porch and I had a couple of pots break and stuff,' Jacob Jolly said at his home in Mooresville, a Charlotte suburb that sits along the lake.){kind=link}
Tornado touches down in Massachusetts on Tuesday as weather wreaks havoc from Alabama to New York
Crews across the eastern United States are working to clear “catastrophic” damage after severe storms that have killed at least two people and caused massive disruption.
The storms that pounded a swath of the country stretching from Alabama and Tennessee to the Carolinas and New York on Monday continued to lash northern New England with wind and rain a day later.
The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down on Tuesday in the Atlantic Coast town of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, though a survey team was still determining its strength.
The twister damaged homes and vehicles, downed trees and power lines, and may have damaged the water treatment plant, which remained operational, according to officials. There were no reports of injuries.