Line of Severe Storms Hits Illinois and Indiana With Ohio Valley Now Under Watch Possibility

Overview

• - A fast-moving squall line over central and east-central Illinois Friday night produced 45–70 mph wind gusts, with radar showing pockets of rotation that can spin up brief tornadoes.
• - The Storm Prediction Center issued Tornado Watch 133 late Friday for west-central and northern Indiana and far southeast Lower Michigan as the line raced east.
• - The Weather Prediction Center said flash flooding was likely in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois due to training thunderstorms over saturated ground, with urban flooding expected near Milwaukee.
• - Forecasters said a new round of storms could organize this afternoon from northern Kentucky into Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and they put the chance of needing a severe-thunderstorm watch at 40 percent.
• - In a separate area, WPC warned that slow-moving storms in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana could drop more than two inches of rain per hour this afternoon, raising a localized urban flash-flood risk.