Overnight Rainfall Amounts ending Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

24 Hour Rainfall Overnight Through 10 AM CDT July 28, 2010

The map above shows where the rain was heaviest, and where some locations did not receive much rain at all the evening of July 27th through the morning of July 28th. Notice that much of the area between Salem South Dakota and Harrisburg South Dakota recieved more than an inch and half of rainfall. Some locations from central Sioux Falls through northern Lincoln county measured more than two inches. It was also rather wet toward the northwest up to around Carthage, and toward the east to around Sanborn Iowa, where amounts were mostly between a half and nine tenths of an inch.