A deadly weekend of weather struck large sections of the United States on Sunday, with record-breaking heat across the West and ongoing flood emergencies from the Midwest through the mid-Atlantic.
Salt Lake City reached a preliminary high of 109 degrees on Sunday, breaking the city's previous all-time record of 107 degrees. That record had been set four times before, including in 1960, 2002, 2021, and twice in 2022. Temperature records for the city go back to 1874.
The heat was even more severe farther north. Billings, Montana, hit a preliminary high of 111 degrees, shattering its previous record of 108 degrees set on July 14, 2002. Miles City, Montana, reached 115 degrees, breaking its previous all-time high of 111 degrees set in June 2012. Temperatures topped 100 degrees across much of the Intermountain West and exceeded 110 degrees in parts of Montana and Wyoming.
According to ABC News, extreme heat warnings were issued from Utah to eastern Montana and into Minnesota, including Salt Lake City, Billings, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Duluth, Minnesota. Heat alerts extended from southern California to Montana to Minnesota. Hot and dry conditions were also fueling elevated to critical fire weather conditions across parts of the Northwest on Sunday afternoon.
Daily high temperature records were being threatened through Monday across the region.
On the opposite side of the country, a flash-flood threat stretched from Tennessee to West Virginia as slow-moving thunderstorms swept through parts of the Midwest and South. Flood watches remained in effect Sunday afternoon for Nashville, Lexington, Kentucky, and Charleston, West Virginia. Flash flooding was reported in Huntington, West Virginia.
The weekend flooding followed a catastrophic event in Missouri that prompted hundreds of water rescues, including more than 160 teenagers at Camp Taum Sauk in Reynolds County. In Crawford County, Missouri, a missing woman identified as Faith Gregory was found dead on Saturday, discovered about 2 miles downstream from her home in Huzzah Creek, according to the county sheriff's office.
Severe thunderstorms were also possible Sunday afternoon across parts of the Carolinas and eastern Georgia, including Charlotte, Charleston, and Savannah, with strong winds and damaging gusts forecast for the area.
