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Flooding Threat Continues in Portions of Texas; Poor Air Quality in the Great Lakes through the Mid-Atlantic

Widespread life-threatening flash and urban flooding continues in south-central Texas, with considerable flooding impacts possible across central Texas. Wildfire smoke is impacting air quality across much of the Great Lakes region into southern New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Monsoonal thunderstorms may produce isolated to scattered flash flooding across the Southwest into the Great Basin. Read More >

Overview

During the late afternoon of Thursday, July 7th, scattered storms developed across northern Illinois and slowly moved east-northeast.  As the storms grew, their slow movement helped to produce locally heavy rainfall.  The Doppler Radar estimated rainfall maps show the localized nature of the heavy rainfall.  In addition, there were a handful of funnel cloud reports from the storms due to large scale rotation in the atmosphere.  Concentrated storm rotation for tornadoes was not favored.
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