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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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Simpson County Maybe a funnel cloud?  Difficult to tell in this still photo.  Photo courtesy Dale McCreary
Simpson County Near Franklin.  Photo courtesy Josh Jones
Simpson County A possible wall cloud.  Photo courtesy Ted and Kim Best
Simpson County Another picture of the possible wall cloud.  Photo courtesy Ted and Kim Best
Simpson County Straight-line wind damage.
Simpson County Straight-line wind damage.

Here's a radar picture of the storm as it was blowing trees down north of Franklin:

Simpson County