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Slight Risk for Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorms Thursday

Additional rounds of thunderstorms are expected Thursday and Thursday night across Oklahoma and north Texas, with risks for both large hail and flash flooding. Strong winds may accompany any storms from east Texas northeast through the lower Great Lakes. Read More >

Overview

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across eastern Iowa, northwest Illinois, and northeast Missouri during the afternoon and evening of Monday, September 3, as an upper level disturbance tracked across the region. One thunderstorm intensified into a supercell, and produced a few tornados as it tracked across Benton and Linn counties during the late afternoon and early evening.  Another storm produced a tornado on the west northwest side of Cedar Rapids shortly after 9 PM CDT. 

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