Severe Thunderstorms After Catastrophic Flooding
Two lines of severe thunderstorms rolled through our area last night just a couple of days after catastrophic flooding. This threatened a repeat of the flooding only hours after most of the flooding at receded. There is no doubt that there were severe thunderstorms in these two lines of severe weather but it just barely clipped us. Most of the severe weather was slightly north of us. We got about an inch of rain and the sky was like a midwestern light show of constant lightning and rumbling thunder. I've lived all across the country and I have to say that the most common thunderstorms in the midwest are what would be considered very severe thunderstorms in the northeast. These common midwestern thunderstorms are ominous with lightning every second or two, heavy downpours, damaging hail, ferocious wind, with constant rumbling of thunder. Last night, it was easy to tell that this type of weather was in our area but, fortunately, the truly severe storms were just barely north