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Heavy Rain From the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic; Heat Wave Begins This Weekend

Strong to severe thunderstorms and heavy rain will impact portions of the central Plains into the Upper Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic through the weekend. A stretch of unusually hot and humid weather is expected across portions of the central U.S. and the Southeast beginning this weekend and continuing through next week. The heat may reach dangerous levels, particularly mid to late next week. 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