Severe thunderstorms rolled through southern Michigan and northwest Ohio on Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power in the region and killing three people, including an 11-year-old boy who was swept into a drain as the storm system stretched into Arkansas, the authorities said.
A line of storms, which had dissipated by Monday night, produced wind gusts from 60 to 80 miles per hour in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, prompting severe thunderstorm warnings throughout the day, said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The impact of the storm system extended south into Arkansas, where heavy rainfall and flash flooding swept through the northern part of the state, said Joe Sellers, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
“The storms that we encountered were more detached from the main body of storms farther north,” Mr. Sellers said. “It was not a solid line but it was part of the same system, in that the energy associated with it extended this far south.”
In Bentonville, Ark., the boy was playing near a pond where water gathers during heavy rain when he fell into the water and was swept into a drain, the police said. A woman who tried to save him was rescued and treated in a hospital, the police said.
In Toledo, Ohio, a woman was killed by a tree that fell during the storm, Sterling Rahe, a spokesman for the Toledo Fire & Rescue Department, said in a statement.
The woman, who was not identified by the authorities, was found dead in the backyard of her home, where the tree had fallen, Mr. Rahe said.
A 14-year-old girl, who was also not identified by the authorities, had been walking with a friend in the backyard of her home in Monroe, Mich., about 40 miles southwest of Detroit, when she thought she smelled a bonfire and reached for a stick, unaware that it was a charged electrical line, the Monroe Public Safety Department said in a statement. She was found dead by rescue workers.
Power was being restored through some areas early on Tuesday, after the storm knocked out electricity to more than 600,000 customers in Michigan and Indiana late on Monday.
Shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, there were about 360,000 customers without power in Michigan, according to PowerOutage.us, which aggregates data from utilities across the United States. The storms moved through Detroit, which might explain why so many people lost power, Mr. Oravec said. In Indiana, about 4,000 customers were without power on Tuesday afternoon, according to the website.
A temporary power outage at a Great Lakes Water Authority Station prompted three localities in the Detroit metro area — Novi, Commerce Township and Walled Lake — to issue “precautionary” boil water advisories because of possible bacterial contamination. They said all residents should boil water before any kind of use or consumption.
Thunderstorms are typical in the Midwest during the summer. On Monday, hot and humid air helped lines of severe thunderstorms form, Mr. Oravec said.
“If the atmospheric conditions are right, they can race out really quickly,” he added. “And the high winds can develop with the thunderstorms — and that’s what happened today.”
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