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Heavy Rain is Likely Across the Mid-Atlantic States Today Along With Potentially Damaging Wind Gusts; Critical Fire Weather in the Great Basin

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are expected today across the Mid-Atlantic and forecast to contain heavy to excessive rainfall. Numerous instances of flash flooding are possible in southern Virginia and north-central North Carolina. Severe thunderstorms are also possible across the northern Great Plains today. Elevated to Critical Fire Weather located across the Intermountain West. Read More >

...F1 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN GRANT COUNTY INDIANA...

A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY TEAM HAS CONFIRMED AN F1
TORNADO IN GRANT COUNTY INDIANA JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF VAN
BUREN. THE DAMAGE PATH WAS ABOUT 3 MILES LONG AND 50 YARDS WIDE. THE
TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY
ROADS 200N AND 600E AND LIFTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROADS
400N AND 800E. DAMAGE WAS RELATIVELY MINOR WITH THE CORNER OF A ROOF
DAMAGED ON ONE HOME AND SEVERAL TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN. THERE WAS
ALSO DAMAGE TO SEVERAL GRAIN ELEVATOR AUGERS. THE TORNADO ALSO
CROSSED INTERSTATE 69 JUST NORTH OF MILE MARKER 66 WHICH RESULTED IN
A TRUCK BEING BLOWN OFF THE HIGHWAY.