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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Today in the Central U.S.

A storm system will track from the southern Plains to the Upper Midwest today. Severe thunderstorms are expected from east Texas into far southeast Iowa and Illinois. A strong tornado and damaging wind potential will exist from central Arkansas into central Missouri. Heavy to excessive rainfall from eastern Texas into the Midwest states may bring new or renewed areas of flooding. Read More >

Overview

A complex weather system set up as an area of low pressure pushed across the Tennessee Valley on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Initially, a few supercell-like thunderstorms produced large hail due to their rotation and stronger updrafts near the Virginia border. A bowing line of storms then brought damaging wind gusts into the Lake Cumberland region later in the afternoon. There were multiple reports of large hail in some of the stronger storms in southeast Kentucky, with the largest hail occurring in Harlan County near Loyall.

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2.5 inch hail seen NW of Loyall
(Courtesy of Tammy Hyatt from Andrew Dockery WYMT Facebook).