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底特律遭龙卷风，得克萨斯州降雨两英尺，假日夹在其间
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得克萨斯州两英尺降雨
这场强对流天气如何演变
到周日下午，仍有33,238户DTE用户处于断电之中，该公司218万用户中约98%已恢复供电。3 对于那些在假日周末侧耳期待变压器嗡鸣声的家庭来说，周日恢复供电的承诺是唯一重要的时间表。
地面停飞令下的假日出行高峰
地点
- 01密歇根州底特律
- 02宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡
- 03纽约州布法罗
- 04得克萨斯州哈丁县锡克特
已知
未知
- 整个假日期间的航班延误和取消尚无经核实的全国最终统计。
后续
- DTE能否全面恢复供电，得克萨斯州河流能否在不再需要救援的情况下退水。
- 大平原高温会在周二后消退，还是会延长95度的连续高温纪录。
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播出原貌
- Detroit's first tornado since 1997 hit the east side with 115 mph winds.
- It happened as one of the busiest travel days of the year collided with a rare multi-day severe outbreak — more than 50 million people sat in the risk zone, and by Friday morning more than half a million customers were without power across a 470-mile stretch from Michigan to Delaware. So as the holiday rush peaks, the real question is whether this weekend will be remembered as a record — or as near-record travel with a record gas price.
- The tornado was confirmed on the city's east side Thursday evening — an EF-2 with 115 mph winds, a damage path three and a half miles long and half a mile wide. It left one person injured, no one killed. Earlier that afternoon, an EF-0 touched down in Lincoln Park, and a separate tornado was confirmed in St. Clair County. The mayor, Mary Sheffield, described significant damage, including a destroyed building and a torn-off roof.
- That tornado was part of a corridor stretching from the Great Lakes through the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic — more than 50 million people were in the Thursday severe weather risk zone, covering Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington. Thursday evening, the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh issued tornado warnings for parts of Westmoreland and Fayette counties, including Latrobe, Murrysville and Mount Pleasant, with gusts around Pittsburgh up to 75 mph. Flash flooding hit northern Ohio, where families were rescued by boat, and Springfield, Ohio, where crews went door to door. Buffalo set a daily rain record above three inches, stranding cars in flooded streets.
- Texas was hit harder by water. The remnants of Tropical Storm Edouard came ashore September first near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana, then stalled over Southeast Texas. A gauge at Thicket in Hardin County recorded 24.36 inches — just over two feet. Hardin County saw 18 to 20 inches over two days, against a normal September total of about five and a half inches. Flash flood emergencies stretched across Hardin, Tyler and Polk counties, and authorities rescued dozens of people. By the time the remnants dissipated September third, multi-day totals of 15 to 25 inches had fallen, and river flooding was forecast to linger for days.
- The power toll was hardest to miss. By Friday morning, more than 500,000 customers were without power across a 470-mile swath from Michigan to Delaware, concentrated in Metro Detroit and around Pittsburgh. DTE Energy said more than 450,000 of its customers were affected across three storm days — roughly 100,000 Wednesday, about 200,000 Thursday and more on Friday. The utility deployed a 4,000-person effort including 1,900 mutual-aid lineworkers, and pledged to restore all remaining outages by Sunday. By Sunday afternoon, 33,238 DTE customers were still in the dark — about 98 percent of its 2.18 million customers restored.
- The storm sequence started with Edouard's landfall on September first, then the first severe storms in Michigan the next day, the Detroit tornado on the third, peak outages on the fourth, and by Sunday the utility was still working to restore the last outages.
- The storm hit precisely as travel peaked. The TSA screened more than 17 million people from Thursday through the following Wednesday, with roughly 2.8 million on Friday alone. The FAA logged more than 280,000 flights over the same stretch. Flight delays topped 7,000 nationwide, and one compilation for September third and fourth put the figure at 6,750 delays and 283 cancellations. Thursday brought an average ground delay near two hours at JFK and roughly 45 minutes at LaGuardia. Friday brought FAA ground stops at Dulles, LaGuardia, Reagan National, Baltimore-Washington and Pittsburgh, with ground delays at Boston, LaGuardia and Reagan National. Dallas reported a 40 percent flight-delay rate. Chicago O'Hare handled 1.41 million holiday passengers, up about 6 percent from the year before.
- Now, about that 'record' claim. The data points to near-record, not record. The TSA projected air travel just below 2025's record, with Friday's 2.8 million screened compared with 2.971 million on the record Friday before Labor Day 2025. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey counted 6.6 million people using its airports and crossings from September third to eighth, with more than 2.4 million through JFK, Newark, LaGuardia and Stewart — just below the 2.5 million record set in 2025. Road crossings reached up to 4.2 million vehicles. What was plainly a record was the gas: holiday prices ran about $4.03 to $4.15 a gallon nationally, against $3.19 at the previous Labor Day.
- A second hazard was building to the south and west. A heat dome sat over the central and southern Plains and the Mississippi Valley, keeping nearly 45 million people under heat advisories or extreme heat warnings through Labor Day, including St. Louis. Heat indices of 105 or higher were recorded in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mississippi. Kansas City was among the hardest hit, with highs in the mid-90s to around 100 and heat indices near 106. The National Weather Service flagged the possibility of 12 consecutive days at or above 95 degrees — the longest such stretch since July 2012 — in a city whose normal early-September highs are in the low 80s.
- The storms largely cleared north and east in time for the holiday. Metro Detroit and much of the Midwest saw their last serious round Friday, then dried out, with Sunday and Labor Day mostly dry and sunny. The broader pattern shifted south into the Carolinas by Saturday afternoon, leaving a slight severe risk Sunday in parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Montana. The Plains heat dome was not expected to break, with the Kansas City warning running through Tuesday and river flooding in Texas lingering for days after the rain stopped.
- Authorities were still assessing casualties; there have been reports of deaths amid the tornadoes and flash flooding, though no verified toll has been established. So, was it a record weekend? It produced historic local weather — Detroit's first tornado in nearly three decades, and a Texas rainfall gauge above two feet. But the travel peak it menaced was just short of a record. The record belonged to the price of getting there.
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