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Fire Weather Concerns for a Large Part of the Central U.S.; Severe Weather in the Central Plains

Dry and windy conditions will bring widespread fire weather concerns to the northern/central Plains and portions of the Southwest into the southern Plains. Severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging wind gusts are possible over the central Plains today into this weekend. Rain and high elevation snow is expected over parts of the Cascades and Northern Intermountain Region through Saturday. Read More >

Overview

Scattered showers and thunderstorms tracked east along and ahead of a cold front that pushed through eastern IA, northwest IL, and northeast MO during the late afternoon and evening.  Some of the storms produced large hail, gusty winds, and heavy rain and the strongest storms brought large hail to portions of Buchanan county and damaging winds in Muscatine county.

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WPC Surface Analysis 21z 06/15/22
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