Officials are reporting at least three deaths amid a storm system that downed trees and power lines and left more than half a million customers in the dark across Pennsylvania and other states.

Meanwhile, several severe weather events hit the Midwest and the Heartland as more than 280 destructive straight-line winds greater than 70mph were reported from Texas to New York with large hail fell in Texas, and a more than 500 miles long wind event left at least one dead and hundreds of thousands without power from Indiana to Pennsylvania.