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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 cold front progressing across central Iowa helped produced showers and thunderstorms across much of the region this afternoon and evening.

Thunderstorms became severe across southeast Iowa, west central Illinois, and northeast Missouri, and produced tornadoes, winds up to 80 MPH, hail up to golf ball size, and heavy rainfall amounts over 1 inch. Damage to trees and power lines were reported from Van Buren to Clark and Hancock counties.

A damage survey team found two EF-1 tornadoes touched down north of Keosauqua in Van Buren County as storms moved through. Please see the Tornado tab below for additional details.

 

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