National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

Heavy Rain Continues in Florida; Cold Front Brings Thunderstorms and Showers to Central US

Scattered areas of heavy rain continue to produce isolated flash flooding across the Florida peninsula. Anomalous moisture will combine with a cold front and will bring heavy rain and scattered flash flooding across the Mid-South, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys today and Tuesday. Above average temperatures will continue to be found ahead of the cold front from the Midwest to the Northeast. Read More >

Overview

Severe storms with tornadoes, large hail, damaging straight-line winds, heavy rain, and flash flooding moved across northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota during the afternoon and evening of July 3, 2019. Tornadoes were reported near both Allen, South Dakota, and southwest of Dewey, South Dakota (located across the border in Wyoming). The lightning map to the right shows that there were concentrated areas of cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in both of those areas.

24-h CG lightning ending 6 am July 4th, 2019
24-hour cloud-to-ground lightning from 6 am July 4 to 6 am July 5, 2019
nws logo Media use of NWS Web News Stories is encouraged!
Please acknowledge the NWS as the source of any news information accessed from this site.
nws logo