A tornado did not materialize Sunday as the National Weather Service had warned, but a strong cold front colliding with hot, humid air did produce heavy rains and strong winds, briefly knocking out power to hundreds of homes in the Lehigh Valley and Poconos.
PPL Corp. reported 610 customers in Lehigh, Northampton and Monroe counties remained without power as of 8:20 p.m., down from around 700 at 3 p.m. The bulk of the outages were in Pocono Township.
Just 14 Easton area Met-Ed residents had no power, said spokesman Mark Troutman at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
The NASCAR race, the Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Monroe County, was delayed 90 minutes at the start by rain, but the race was completed.
According to scanner reports, there was an uptick in vehicle accidents that coincided with the heaviest of the rain and wind.
The National Weather Service, on its website, said a strong area of low pressure pulled a strong cold front across the area. A very warm and moist air mass ahead of the cold front, coupled with strengthening winds above the surface, led to some heavy showers and thunderstorms.
The Weather Service had warned those types conditions are conducive for thunderstorms to rotate, leading to a tornado. The Weather Service issued a tornado watch early Sunday morning for Sunday night, but there were no tornados reported.
The region averages a couple tornado watch advisories per year, said Kristin Kline, a meteorologist with the Weather Service.
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