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Extreme Heat and Fire Weather Conditions in the West; Heavy Rain in the Southeast; Poor Air Quality

Extreme heat will begin to peak across the Desert Southwest. Multiple days of hot, dry and windy conditions are expected to bring fire weather concerns for portions of the Four Corners region into the central Great Basin and Rockies. Heavy rainfall and a flash flooding threat continues in the Southeast. Poor air quality persists from the Upper Midwest into the Northeast due to wildfire smoke. Read More >

Overview

Severe storms across the southwest formed into a line and pushed east across south central and southeastern North Dakota for round one. The worst damage came occurred in Killdeer where golf ball to 3 inch diameter hail and 75 mph winds caused widespread damage, ripping siding from homes and shattering windows. Round two had several storms move northeast out of South Dakota while the line of storms moved through the James River Valley. These storms produced tennis ball sized hail in Bucyrus to 2 inch hail in Linton along with high winds. Both rounds of storms brought torrential rainfall with totals as high as 4.19 inches 4 miles west of Westfield. Street flooding occurred in Bismarck, Dickinson, and Jamestown from the intense rain. 

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