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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Today in the Central U.S.

A storm system will track from the southern Plains to the Upper Midwest today. Severe thunderstorms are expected from east Texas into far southeast Iowa and Illinois. A strong tornado and damaging wind potential will exist from central Arkansas into central Missouri. Heavy to excessive rainfall from eastern Texas into the Midwest states may bring new or renewed areas of flooding. Read More >

Overview


Radar imagery showing the heavy system precipitation lifting northeast across the Upper Peninsula 

Significant winter storm impacted all of Upper Michigan late Saturday night through Sunday, bringing with it heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain. Several roof collapses were reported across the area due to the weight of the snow on top of what has already been a very snowy last 5 weeks. On top of the wintry precipitation, strong northwest winds on the backside of the system, with gusts upwards of 50 to 65 mph, resulted in blizzard conditions at times. Numerous roads were closed, including M-117, M-28 between Harvey and Munising, M-26 between Eagle River and Copper Harbor, and US-2 in Mackinaw County east of Worth Rd. 

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