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Good morning everyone! A heavy batch of showers and embedded thunderstorms are currently pushing into northwestern IL from the IA as of 7:20am EDT. This batch will continue to produce heavy rains through the remainder of the morning as it progresses further into northern/northeastern IL. Some isolated pop-ups have also…

Good afternoon everyone! Not much in the way of shower and storm activity ongoing across the region currently (as of 2pm EDT). However, lighter rains should clip the far southwestern portions of IL through the afternoon hours with additional pulse-type storms expected to develop across southern IL/IN and southwestern OH…

Good morning!  Here are the latest 7-day forecasts: Most all of us are dry once again today, here's the best area to watch for stronger/heavier storms tonight into early Saturday morning across northern IL into northern/northwestern IN given a favorable environment aloft: We think some pulse storms ~20/30% can't be…

Today's video: http://youtu.be/8tEhDoxAHFY?hd=1 Area where we think could potentially be upgraded to an enhanced risk for severe storms today into tonight, otherwise we think most of the state is susceptible to strong storms capable of producing damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, iso large hail and iso tornadoes. With that being…

Illinois Video: http://youtu.be/rzuy-KtOx7s?hd=1 Indiana/Ohio Video: http://youtu.be/fv10AMqkOWI?hd=1 Most all of us are dry once again today, here's the best area to watch for stronger/heavier storms tonight into early Saturday morning across northern IL into northern/northwestern IN given a favorable environment aloft: We think some pulse storms ~20/30% can't be ruled out…

Video: http://youtu.be/HtxUsMYSg_E?hd=1 Updated severe storm outlook for Friday.  Enhanced severe risk across the western half of Iowa and northwest Missouri.  We've got many good ingredients coming together including good wind energy/turning of winds in the lower atmosphere, lots of moisture streaming in with very high levels of instability.   At…