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Dangerous Heat Continues; Monitoring Excessive Rainfall and Flash Flooding

The heat continues along and east of the Mississippi River. The most significant cumulative heat impacts are expected across the Mid-Atlantic through today and eastern Ohio Valley through Friday. Severe weather and heavy rainfall potential from the Southwest, Plains, upper Midwest, Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast the next couple of days. A disturbance near the Marianas may bring flooding. Read More >

Overview

A slowly moving storm system brought several rounds of showers and thunderstorms to eastern Iowa, northwest Illinois and far northeast Missouri during the day on Wednesday April 7, 2021. The heavy rainfall occurred south of a Fairfield to Galesburg line with reports ranging from 1.13 inches in Burlington to 1.80 inches in Bushnell Illinois. A few of these thunderstorms became severe and produced damaging winds in McDonough, Henderson, and Hancock Counties during the late afternoon and early evening hours.  Damage was also reported to some mobile homes and a garage on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids due to a weak tornado that caused one minor injury.

 

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