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Another Round of Heavy Rain and Mountain Snow in California; Snow in the Great Lakes and Northeast

Another round of heavy rainfall will renew concerns for additional flash flooding and landslides in southern California around burn scars and coastal mountain ranges. A low pressure system is bringing enhanced snowfall downwind from the lower Great Lakes into the Northeast mountain ranges. Above average temperatures will challenge or break daily record high temperatures across the southern Plains. Read More >

Overview

A strong storm system tracked through the region during the evening hours on Friday April 13, 2018. A few super cell thunderstorms and several line segments developed across the Missouri Ozarks, that produce large hail, damaging winds, and four tornadoes. One supercell occurred across southern Taney County, which produced large hail of golf ball to tennis ball size and straight line winds around 70 mph. Line segments then developed producing four tornadoes, one EF-2 and three EF-1 tornadoes. The severe weather generally occurred east of Highway 65 and south of Interstate 44. Localized minor flooding also occurred across portions of south central Missouri will training of storms occurred.

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