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Tracking Storm System Across the Eastern U.S.

A storm system will continue to produce widespread showers and thunderstorms as it progresses eastward across the central U.S. into the Northeast through the weekend. There are risks of severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall on Saturday from the Ozarks into the mid-Mississippi River Valley with potential for damaging winds, large hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding. Read More >

Overview

Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms impacted southern Wisconsin from the afternoon of July 13 through the evening of July 15. Occurring within a warm, muggy, and unstable air mass in place across the region, these rounds of storms brought large hail, damaging winds, as well as torrential rainfall to portions of the NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan county warning area. This overview provides a brief recap of the active period of weather. A deeper dive on the event will be provided in a future GIS story map.

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Observed rainfall between 7:00 AM July 13 and 7:00 AM July 16.
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