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Dangerous Heat Continues; Monitoring Excessive Rainfall and Flash Flooding

The heat continues along and east of the Mississippi River. The most significant cumulative heat impacts are expected across the Mid-Atlantic through today and eastern Ohio Valley through Friday. Severe weather and heavy rainfall potential from the Southwest, Plains, upper Midwest, Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast the next couple of days. A disturbance near the Marianas may bring flooding. Read More >

Overview

Showers and thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front that tracked across eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois Thursday afternoon and evening. A few of these storms became severe, and produced ping pong to golf ball sized hail and wind gusts exceeding 60 MPH. Several reports of tree damage and trees down were received in Monticello and Haskins.

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