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Heavy Rain From the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic; Heat Wave Begins This Weekend

Strong to severe thunderstorms and heavy rain will impact portions of the central Plains into the Upper Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic through the weekend. A stretch of unusually hot and humid weather is expected across portions of the central U.S. and the Southeast beginning this weekend and continuing through next week. The heat may reach dangerous levels, particularly mid to late next week. Read More >

Overview

A strong storm system combined with weak instability to produce scattered severe weather across the area. Most of the severe weather in the form of large hail and isolated damaging wind gusts occurred across far northern Indiana, southern Lower Michigan, and extreme northwest Ohio. In addition to the severe weather, strong non-thunderstorm winds gusted to around 45 mph for many locations during the afternoon and early evening.

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