Severe Thunderstorms in the Central U.S.; Heavy to Excessive Rainfall in the Ohio Valley and Central Appalachians

Severe thunderstorms producing damaging winds, hail, and a few tornadoes are expected through Tuesday across parts of the central Plains and lower to mid Missouri Valley. Heavy to excessive rainfall could produce flooding across portions of the Ohio Valley into the Central Appalachians through Tuesday. Read More >

Western New York Weather History

MAY 5

1998

A localized thunderstorm dropped three quarters of an inch of rain in less than an hour and inch and a quarter hail across Genesee county. The hail accumulated several inches on the ground and piles of it could still be seen hours later. Three-quarter inch has was reported in Bergen and hail an inch-and-a-quarter fell in Batavia.