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Prolonged, Intense Heat Wave; Excessive Rainfall in the Southern Rockies and Central Plains into the Upper Midwest

Extremely dangerous heat persists through Thursday with widespread daily temperature records. Monsoonal moisture continues to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to New Mexico and west Texas through Thursday, especially in the burn scar areas. Thunderstorms and heavy to excessive rain will continue to bring a flash flood threat from the Central Plains into the Upper Midwest. Read More >

Overview

An outbreak of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes from the Texas Panhandle/western Oklahoma northward into southwest and central Kansas and into the Upper Midwest occurred during the afternoon to evening hours of 16 May 2017. Several supercells developed over southwest into central Kansas with one of these storms resulting in several tornado reports. An initial tornado with this storm occurred south-southeast of Minneola shortly before 6 pm CDT and was rated EF1 with a path length of 4 miles. A second, EF3 tornado started shortly before 8 pm CDT 4 miles east of Larned in Pawnee County and tracked a total of 27 miles across Pawnee into Barton Counties before lifting northwest of Hoistington in Barton County at 840 pm CDT.

 

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