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Category: Severe convection

Severe thunderstorms produce giant hail and isolated tornadoes in the Southern Plains

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared images (above) included time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports — which showed discrete supercell thunderstorms that produced giant hail (as large as 4.00 inches in diameter in southwest Kansas at 2215 UTC and 2343 UTC, and 3.50 inches in diameter in the northeast Texas Panhandle... Read More

Significant flash flooding in the Milwaukee metro area — and 2 hikers injured by a lightning strike near Palmyra, Wisconsin

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced very heavy rainfall — with 4 sites reporting over 11 inches across parts of the Milwaukee metro area (text list | radar-estimated rainfall) during the 12-hour period from early in the evening on 09 August into the early morning hours on 10 August 2025.... Read More