--- title: Severe Weather Hits New Hampshire, North Carolina, Michigan, Louisiana description: Severe weather was set to continue in the South and Northeast on Monday canonical: https://time.com/3045237/storms-flood-tornado-summer/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-28T11:11:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:22:12.512Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Severe Weather Hits New Hampshire, North Carolina, Michigan, Louisiana og:description: Severe weather was set to continue in the South and Northeast on Monday og:url: https://time.com/3045237/storms-flood-tornado-summer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt035e095668945d3a/69869d61361760270090d3a1/storm-tennessee.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Lightning strikes over downtown in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 27, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Severe Weather Hits New Hampshire, North Carolina, Michigan, Louisiana twitter:description: Severe weather was set to continue in the South and Northeast on Monday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt035e095668945d3a/69869d61361760270090d3a1/storm-tennessee.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tumultuous Storms Batter Millions Across U.S. by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jul 28, 2014 11:11 AM CUT  Lightning strikes over downtown in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 27, 2014. Lightning strikes over downtown in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 27, 2014.Saul Young—The Knoxville News Sentinel/AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jul 28, 2014 11:11 AM CUT An extensive system of storms that flattened homes, flooded neighborhoods and triggered tornadoes split, reignited and threatened yet more damage early Monday. The severe weather battered a vast area from New Hampshire to North Carolina and from Michigan to northern Louisiana on Sunday. Six tornadoes reportedly touched down, more than 200,000 customers were left without power and thousands of flights were canceled or delayed. [Read more from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/destructive-summer-storms-batter-millions-forecasters-warn-n166361?cid=par-time-article%5F20140728 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3045237/storms-flood-tornado-summer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3045237/storms-flood-tornado-summer/"},"headline":"Tumultuous Storms Batter Millions Across U.S.","datePublished":"2014-07-28T11:11:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:22:12.512Z","description":"Severe weather was set to continue in the South and Northeast on Monday","url":"https://time.com/3045237/storms-flood-tornado-summer/","keywords":["weather"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt035e095668945d3a/69869d61361760270090d3a1/storm-tennessee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt035e095668945d3a/69869d61361760270090d3a1/storm-tennessee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lightning strikes over downtown in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 27, 2014.","caption":"Lightning strikes over downtown in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 27, 2014.","creditText":"Saul Young—The Knoxville News Sentinel/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3045237/storms-flood-tornado-summer/","name":"Tumultuous Storms Batter Millions Across U.S."}}]}] ```