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Lala Impacting Hawaii; Flash Flooding Risks; Excessive Heat

Lala will continue to impact Hawaii through the weekend. Heavy rainfall, strong winds, dangerous surf and localized flooding are expected. Thunderstorms, heavy rainfall and flash flooding concerns from the mid-Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley into the central Appalachians and the mid-Atlantic through today. Record heat continues for areas of the Mississippi Valley into the Southeast. Read More >

Overview

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across the area on the evening of July 5th, 2016, producing a swath of damaging winds from 45 to 95 mph, along with embedded small tornadoes. Numerous trees were downed, and there were sporadic power outages and damage to some buildings.

There was quite a bit of wind damage along the track of the storm - some extreme.  There were four (4) documented tornadoes as well - 3 were EF1s and 1 EF0.

Radar loop
Radar Loop from the evening of July 5, 2016.
(Warnings: severe thunderstorm-yellow, tornado-red)
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