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Hot in Parts of the West; Cold Blast Coming to the Central U.S.

Hot to extremely hot temperatures are in place much of this week across parts of California and the interior Northwest U.S. A blast of cold air will drop across the central and eastern U.S. later this week bringing below to well below normal temperatures. Read More >

Overview

Several storms that developed across west central Wisconsin during the late afternoon, and early evening of July 4th, 2019, produced an EF0 tornado south of Bruce, Wisconsin. Numerous trees were blown down or uprooted. Some of the trees fell on lake cabins. 

The radar loop shows Radar Reflectivity (left) and Storm Relative Velocity (right) in 2 minute increments from 522 PM to 6:11 PM. The red area indicates outbound velocity, and green indicates inbound velocity (circulation, but at 12,000 feet above the surface) At times you can also see circulations in the velocity, which indicate rotating updrafts.