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

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. Air Quality Alerts have been issued. 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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