Fire Weather Concerns and Severe Thunderstorms through the Weekend

Dry and windy conditions, and some dry thunderstorms and lightning, may support hazardous fire activity in the northern Plains, high southern Plains and the Southwest this weekend. An active severe weather pattern is forecast for portions of the central and southern High Plains into the Upper Midwest through early the part of next week. Damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes are possible. Read More >

- Map displaying storm reports. Click the image to view an interactive map of the reports.

- Visible Satellite loop during the afternoon hours of July 1, 2012

- Chronological sequence of radar images of a severe thunderstorm over northeastern Chesterfield County, SC around 2:30 pm. Note how the core of higher reflectivity values (60+ dbz are white) grows to over 40,000 ft by frame 4 and then descends to the surface in image 5.