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Areas of Heavy Rainfall and Critical Fire Weather on Wednesday

Heavy to excessive rainfall may bring flooding to parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia Wednesday. Recently burned areas will be particularly vulnerable to flash flooding. Gusty winds and low humidity will bring critical fire weather to parts of the Northwest U.S. and central Alaska on Wednesday where Red Flag Warnings are in effect. Read More >

Overview

Thunderstorms began developing over northwest Iowa shortly after midnight on August, 2019. While storms started out as discrete storms producing mainly small hail and locally heavy rainfall, they gradually merged and the threat transitioned to a wind and tornado event. By 4 to 7 am storms were pushing across central Iowa, producing areas of straight line wind damage with several embedded tornadoes along the front edge of the line. As storms continued to push south the tornado threat diminished, but storms continued to produce heavy rain and gusty winds across the line of storms.

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Tree damage just west of Tracy, IA
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