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Heat Wave Expands to the East Coast; Flash Flooding Likely in the Central Plains into the Midwest; Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast

Dangerous, prolonged heat is ongoing in the Mid-South to Mid-Mississippi Valley and heat expands into the Northeast for a brief period today. Widely scattered instances of flash flooding due to heavy rains are forecast from northeast Kansas to much of Indiana. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of New England, northern Mid-Atlantic, and North Dakota. Read More >

Overview

A strong storm system combined with weak instability to produce scattered severe weather across the area. Most of the severe weather in the form of large hail and isolated damaging wind gusts occurred across far northern Indiana, southern Lower Michigan, and extreme northwest Ohio. In addition to the severe weather, strong non-thunderstorm winds gusted to around 45 mph for many locations during the afternoon and early evening.

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