Slight Risk 8/28/08

There is a Slight Risk of severe weather over parts of the Midwest into the Central Plain, over northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and for central and southern Arizona. The severe weather threats will be from very large hail, damaging straight line winds, and isolated tornadoes.

WATCHES
Severe Thunderstorm Watch #872 for parts of west central and southwest Illinois, central and southern Missouri until 1:00 AM CDT.
Severe Thunderstorm Watch #871 for parts of southern Iowa, eastern Kansas, and northern Missouri until 11:00 PM CDT.

Today In Weather History..

1989 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather from Kansas to Minnesota and North Dakota. Thunderstorms in Minnesota produced baseball size hail from Correll to north of Appleton. Thunderstorms in north central Kansas produced wind gusts higher than 100 mph at Wilson Dam. Thunderstorms around Lincoln NE produced baseball size hail and up to five inches of rain, and Boone NE was deluged with five inches of rain in an hour and a half. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)