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Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

Overview

A late season snow storm brought heavy wet snow to portions of southeast Iowa, extreme northeast Missouri and 
northwest Illinois April 16 and 17. With warm ground temperatures, there were not many impacts to travel other than 
reduced visibility at times and minor slushy accumulations on roads. The higher amounts of 5 to 8 inches fell from the 
Fairfield and Keosauqua areas in southeastern Iowa northeast toward Aledo and Kewanee in Illinois.
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