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Severe Thunderstorms and Flash Flooding Concerns Across the Southern Plains

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes are expected to develop this afternoon from western Oklahoma into west-central Texas. An Enhanced Risk (level 3 of 5) of severe thunderstorms in effect. Heavy to excessive rainfall is also likely for central and eastern Texas. Multiple rounds of heavy rainfall will lead to flash, urban and river flooding. Read More >

The National Weather Service Office in St. Louis has the responsibility of maintaining a 24 hour weather watch over an area that stretches from central Missouri to near the Iowa border, east into west central Illinois, and into portions of southeast Missouri.  The area includes 29 counties in Missouri and 17 in Illinois. Click here for map of our County Warning Area (CWA).
 

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