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Severe Thunderstorms Possible in the South Central U.S.; Wildfire Smoke Impacts in the North Central U.S.; Severe Space Weather

Scattered severe thunderstorms may bring large hail and isolated damaging winds this weekend over parts of the south central U.S. Smoke from Canadian wildfires will bring air quality issues to parts of the north central U.S. this weekend. Moderate to Severe geomagnetic storm conditions will remain possible into early Monday following a strong coronal mass ejection from the sun. Read More >

Overview

Showers and thunderstorms developed early Thursday morning, ahead of a cold front that pushed east into central Iowa. Some of these storms produced damaging winds over 70 mph across Benton, Linn, Buchanan, and Delware counties in Iowa. Golf ball sized hail also fell west of Millersburg in Iowa county just before 5 am. Torrential rains also accompanied the storms, as they quickly rolled through the area. Rain amounts between a inch and one and a half inches were common for those that saw the storms. Elsewhere, rain amounts were between a trace to a tenth of an inch.

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