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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

Severe thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front during the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, July 14.  Some of the storms produced damaging winds and several tornadoes, most of which briefly touchdown.  Brief torrential rainfall was also observed with the stronger storm cells.  The areas that were hit hardest were in Delaware and Jones counties in IA, where a total of 5 tornadoes occurred.  An additional 7 tornadoes touched down in eastern IA, with no visible damage reported.

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