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Heavy Rain in the Southern Appalachians; Fire Weather and Heat in the West; Monitoring Tropical Storm Erin

Heavy to excessive rainfall over the southern Appalachians may bring areas of flooding today. Gusty winds and low relative humidity will bring critical fire weather conditions to parts of the Great Basin and northern Rockies today and Thursday. Hot to extremely hot temperatures are in place through today across parts of the western U.S. Read More >

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Crawford County Northeast Crawford County around 2:40pm.  Significant rotation was observed.  Photo:  Dan Crecelius
Crawford County Northeast Crawford County around 2:40pm.  Significant rotation was observed.  Photo:  Dan Crecelius
Hail in English Hail in English.  Photo:  Roy Pickett
hail in English Hail in English.  Photo:  Roy Pickett
Crawford County Storm gathering strength over eastern Crawford County.  Photo:  Wade Bell
marengo The storm roars into the Marengo area.  Photo sent to us by WDRB.
Wall cloud north of English Rotating wall cloud with the second supercell, north of English.  Photo:  Chris Davis
Big hail Huge hail from the second supercell, north of English.  Photo:  Chris Davis

In the sequence of radar images below, you can see how quickly the storm wrapped up as it crossed northern Crawford County.   The last image shows rotation within the storm west of Marengo.  The rotation was very strong, and we were amazed that there was no tornado touchdown!  Of course, this storm would go on to produce an EF4 tornado just one county later.  (Note, too, the second super cell coming up behind it along the same path!)

 

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