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Areas of Dangerous Heat and Heavy Rain with Possible Flooding into this Weekend

Hot temperatures and high humidity are forecast to continue across much of northeast Texas into the mid-Mississippi Valley into this weekend with heat advisories in effect. Heavy to excessive rainfall occurring at times through Saturday could bring areas of flooding across parts of the central Plains into the upper Midwest/Great Lakes, and Four Corners states. 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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