Hundreds of flights canceled as severe weather slams East Coast, while Texas faces possibly record-breaking heat

Millions crossed the state are waking up to more severe weather Tuesday, with hundreds of flights successful and retired of the East Coast cancelled overnight aft thunderstorms struck the portion and a deadly heatwave smothered the South.

More than 715 flights within, into and retired of the U.S. were cancelled arsenic of aboriginal Tuesday morning, with astir 280 of those flights going into and retired of Newark Liberty International Airport, according to online tracker FlightAware.

LaGuardia Airport had much than 115 cancellations, portion John F. Kennedy International Airport had much than 70 and Boston Logan International Airport had astir 60.

Newark, LaGuardia and JFK each warned connected Twitter that upwind conditions were causing formation disruptions, delays and cancellations arsenic they warned travelers to let other clip and interaction their airlines for updates.

The National Weather Service warned that wide clusters of showers and thunderstorms would bent implicit the portion into the aboriginal hours of Tuesday morning, with different beforehand expected to bring much terrible weather.

For Toya Stewart Downey and her family, the terrible upwind has caused large disruption, turning what was meant to beryllium a nonstop formation from New York to Minneapolis into a perchance dayslong journey.

Stewart Downey, 57, and her 2 children, Cameron, 24 and Dallas, 15, had been successful New York to observe her son's coming 16th birthday. When they arrived astatine LaGuardia astatine astir 4 p.m. ET for their 6:30 p.m. formation backmost to Minneapolis, the household noticed a drawstring of flights being cancelled owed to terrible weather, but they held retired anticipation their ain travel would not beryllium affected.

After hours of waiting, they learned their ain formation had been delayed and past later, cancelled wholly owed to terrible weather, with the adjacent formation disposable not until Thursday.

"We said we'll instrumentality immoderate formation to immoderate city," Stewart Downey, a communications manager for a schoolhouse territory successful Minnesota, said successful a telephone interview.

She said she and her household ended up having to instrumentality a Lyft, which she said Delta Air Lines paid for, each the mode to Hartford, Connecticut, a astir 2-hour drive, successful hopes of catching a formation to Detroit and then, finally, to Minneapolis.

The travel could effect successful the household not arriving astatine their destination until Wednesday, she said.

Delta did not instantly respond to an overnight petition for remark from NBC News.

The household had commitments astatine location successful Minneapolis, Stewart Downey said, adding: "We each privation to get backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible."

"It's decidedly an adventure," Cameron said of the unexpected travel to get to home.

The 24-year-old said that aft spending astir 9 hours astatine LaGuardia, and past having to instrumentality a Lyft successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday morning, her household was "tired, but I deliberation there's capable to bash and fig retired that it's not hard to enactment awake either."

Had they waited for the Thursday flight, she said it would person "kind of felt outlandish that suddenly, I would person to beryllium successful New York for an full week."

More terrible upwind is expected successful the area, with the National Weather Service informing that a beforehand extending from parts of the Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic to the Southeast and past to the Southern Plains was besides moving towards the East Coast.

The associated beforehand was expected to bring showers and mean to terrible thunderstorms implicit parts of New York State, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina, with a Marginal Risk of terrible thunderstorms implicit parts of the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic done Wednesday morning, the upwind work said successful a aboriginal Tuesday greeting update.

"The hazards associated with these thunderstorms are predominant lightning, terrible thunderstorm upwind gusts, hail, and a minimal menace of tornadoes," the upwind work said.

Already, photos and videos shared connected societal media appeared to amusement hail storms areas in Pennsylvania and North Carolina on Monday.

Meanwhile, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned Monday that "severe upwind is expected crossed the authorities this week, bringing with it persistent rain, thunderstorms and the imaginable to origin flash flooding."

"Our authorities agencies are preparing exigency effect assets and we are successful adjacent interaction with section governments crossed the authorities to guarantee they are prepared," Hochul said. "I promote each New Yorkers to show their section upwind forecasts, wage attraction to alerts and program accordingly."

Along the occidental extremity of the beforehand moving eastward, showers and terrible thunderstorms were expected to make implicit parts of confederate Kansas, Oklahoma, utmost southwestern Missouri, and northwestern Arkansas, the National Weather Service said, adding that an Enhanced Risk of terrible thunderstorms was successful spot for parts of the Central/Southern Plains done Wednesday morning.

"The hazards associated with these thunderstorms are predominant lightning, terrible thunderstorm upwind gusts, hail, and a fewer tornadoes," on with the menace of "two-inch oregon greater hail," it said.

Showers and terrible thunderstorms were separately expected implicit parts of South Dakota and Nebraska.

As galore braced for stormy conditions, residents of Texas and neighboring states proceed to look terrible heat, which turned deadly after two radical died hiking successful Big Bend National Park.

Excessive vigor warnings with triple digit vigor indices were expected to proceed Tuesday, bringing perchance record-breaking temperatures, the National Weather Service warned.

"The stagnant upper-level ridge implicit the south-central U.S. and resultant multi-week heatwave volition not lone proceed but statesman to grow successful scope implicit the adjacent mates of days arsenic the ridge builds northeastward," the upwind work said successful an online update.

"Highs from southeastern Arizona done confederate New Mexico and into Texas volition stay successful the 100s Tuesday, with precocious 90s to 100s spreading northward into the Central Plains and Middle/Lower Missouri Valley arsenic good arsenic eastbound into the Lower Mississippi Valley Wednesday," it said.

Some regular record-tying oregon adjacent perchance breaking highs were "once again imaginable for portions of Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley. "

The decease toll from terrible upwind crossed the state besides continues to mount, with astatine slightest 3 radical killed aft a storm beforehand wreaked havoc Sunday successful the Midwest and South.

One idiosyncratic was killed erstwhile a tornado felled a location successful Martin County, Indiana, according to officials. with the manager of Martin County Emergency Management, Cameron Wolf, confirming the decease and saying the victim's injured spouse was airlifted to a hospital.

In Arkansas, 2 radical were besides killed erstwhile a histrion fell connected a location successful Carlisle, the Associated Press reported. A 3rd idiosyncratic was besides injured successful the incident, according to the outlet.

Elsewhere, much homes were damaged, roadways were blocked by histrion limbs and debris, and ample hail was reported arsenic the aforesaid tempest beforehand moved done southbound and cardinal Indiana and adjacent states.