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Severe Thunderstorm and Heavy Rainfall Threat Tonight; Heat Continues on Tuesday Across the Eastern U.S.

Severe weather and flash flooding threats continue across the Central Plains and Midwest into tonight. Very large hail, strong tornadoes and damaging winds are expected. An early season heat wave will continue to challenge temperature records across the eastern U.S. through Wednesday. Read More >

LMRFC web graphics will be unavailable today (Jan 18, 2018) due to required computer upgrades. These include forecast status maps for mobile devices, observed precipitation, future precipitation, soil moisture, and winter weather web graphics. The exact time of restoration is not known at this time but is expected to be within the next couple of days.

The zoomable, panable map of river forecast locations on our main page will remain available. For alternate graphics of observed precipitation, future precipitation, soil moisture, winter weather web graphics, and others produced by the LMRFC, use the links at the bottom of the respective pages.