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Tornadoes appeared in Queens and on Long Island as flooding disrupted traffic on some highways. A tornado was also confirmed in Delaware.
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Tornadoes appeared in Queens and on Long Island as flooding disrupted traffic on some highways. A tornado was also confirmed in Delaware.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Storms spark tornadoes and flash flooding in Mid-Atlantic.” Every covered outlet is based in US.
The earliest report in this entry came from CNN (Aug 21, 2026, 08:11 UTC); the most recent came from The New York Times (Aug 21, 2026, 09:43 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “mid atlantic”.
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