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Thunderstorms and Heavy Rainfall in the Mississippi Valley; Heavy Rain Continues in Southeast Florida

A cold front approaching the Mississippi Valley will bring heavy rainfall and isolated severe thunderstorms to the region. Thunderstorms will have the potential to produce isolated severe wind gusts and perhaps a brief tornado or two. Scattered to numerous showers and storms will bring another day of localized flooding to south Florida. Read More >

Steve Blake sent us these photos of a shelf cloud in advance of a storm in Woodford County.  Shelf clouds are often the harbingers of strong winds and torrential rain.

Woodford County

 

Woodford County

 

Here is a radar picture showing the storm as it crossed northern Woodford County.  It had just dropped golf ball sized hail on the south side of Frankfort and would go on to drop golf ball sized hail on Georgetown, but no severe weather was reported by Woodford County to the National Weather Service.

Woodford Coutny radar