Thunderstorms charge across the Upper Midwest

Severe storms hammered Minnesota and surrounding areas on June 18.

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00:00Let's go to the north central now where we're dealing with some heat and some strong storms for some

00:04Yeah

00:05That's right a lot of rain coming out of these thunderstorms here in a northeastern

00:08Minnesota as we've talked about all these have flash flood warnings that have been going on for quite some time and still through 12 15 a.m

00:16We're looking at two Lake County here in a Minnesota meeting

00:19Yeah, the rain's not stopping anytime soon

00:21I want to show you some of the rainfall abounds here over the last six hours and look at some of these numbers here

00:26To the north of again or to the east rather of the town of Cook

00:31We're looking at some Doppler estimates here nearing seven inches of rain

00:35We've had numerous reports of again water covering roads here, and I'll show you a couple of these that coming out again

00:42There's just so many to a kind of comb through here flooding on Minnesota Highway one in both directions again

00:48Here's an additional report to coming out near the town of Tower

00:51Reports again with the three to six inches of water

00:54across County Road 77

00:57Additionally here again looking also I get to complete road washouts here again

01:02So a lot of rain coming down in this area and still some additional rounds of heavy rain set to make its way on through

01:09We're also in the midst of a tornado watch what I show you a watch situation

01:13And we do have additional watches southbound as well here into Iowa

01:17Into Nebraska and into Kansas to go through eight o'clock even ten o'clock local time

01:22So we're not finished with the storms just yet

01:24These will be charging east as we go throughout the evening and into the overnight eventually

01:29We're going to push out of that moisture here to northeastern, Minnesota

01:33But the flooding is going to be continuing here for the next several hours

01:35And then look at this huge broad zone stretched out southwest to northeast of severe weather potential and notice how it now

01:42Extends its way toward Detroit also toward Toledo later on Wednesday

01:46and this is where we can see flash flooding hail and

01:50damaging wind gusts now south and east of here and even in toward Chicago we can see both the storms that are severe and

01:58Experience the heat the heat kind of the driving force here for some of those severe thunderstorms

02:02And we look at the stark contrast between Des Moines at 73 and Chicago at 93 degrees

02:07And then as we work our way into Thursday, Chicago, you start to see your numbers slipping

02:11We're down the 60s around Green Bay, but the heat lingers on here point South Kansas City to st

02:17Louis to Indianapolis

02:18So it begins to reorient itself here from west to east acu with a real filled temperatures heading it toward Friday

02:24with a pocket there into Illinois and Indiana of

02:27105 to

02:28110

02:29Degrees so make sure you're finding ways to stay cool

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