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Heavy Rainfall to Continue Through Tonight in Central Texas; Heat in the East, Interior Northwest, and Southwest

Isolated heavy rainfall will continue through tonight across portions of central Texas, though some relief from the heavy rain is expected on Tuesday. Heat and humidity will remain in place across the Eastern U.S. and interior Northwest U.S. over the next few days with widespread moderate to major Heat Risk. Dangerous heat will build into the Desert Southwest Tuesday through Thursday. Read More >

Overview

Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms impacted the Quad-state region on May 8, 2024. The first round actually started during the late evening of May 7th and continued into the overnight and morning of the 8th. The most widespread and significant storms occurred during the afternoon and evening of the 8th. Storm mode was largely supercells or bowing segments. Damaging winds in excess of 70 mph and golf ball sized hail occurred with some of the stronger storms. At least 9 tornadoes have been confirmed so far. Multiple storms training over the same location resulted in flash flooding with rainfall amounts exceeding 2 to 4 inches in some communities, and locally 5 to 6 inches.
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