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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms, Excessive Rainfall, and Extreme Heat Tuesday

In the Northern Plains into the Upper Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic, heavy to excessive rain may bring flash and urban flooding Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms producing damaging winds are most likely over parts of the Dakotas into Minnesota Tuesday afternoon into the overnight, with other isolated storms producing hail or wind over the northern High Plains. Extreme heat returns to the southwest U.S. Read More >

A round of thunderstorms moved over the Coeur d'Alene area during the afternoon and evening of May 19th. Kootenai County Spotter #62 captured these images from the North Idaho University campus. The first picture is a lightning strike over the lake. The second is mammatus clouds sited beneath the storm.

Lightning bolt over Lake Coeur d'Alene

Mammatus clouds near Coeur d'Alene