From the Great Lakes to the Mississippi Delta, thunderstorms brought risks of severe weather on March 4.
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00:00 We've had a lot of hail coming down with some of these thunderstorms, so we do know that that's going to be one of the issues and the challenges that we have heading into the night.
00:08 You can see a lot of these thunderstorms have frequent lightning as they move their way off towards the northeast very quickly,
00:14 and they are impacting cities like Milwaukee and ultimately Chicago.
00:18 We'll get in on a little bit of this moisture as we head through the night.
00:21 Davenport, you've been dealing with rounds of thunderstorms there.
00:24 Rockford, Janesville, even through Wisconsin, we're getting rainfall mostly from this.
00:30 There's a little bit of snow activity as you get towards Vilas County, Price County, and Ashland and Iron Counties at this point in time.
00:37 This, though, is not the only area that we've been watching for that threat for severe weather.
00:41 Farther south, we've watched these thunderstorms produce a risk for severe weather, too.
00:45 We have had mostly flash flood warnings with a lot of these storms and a few severe thunderstorm warnings.
00:51 So flooding has been the biggest concern, and if we take you into the Big Easy, you can see some of those flash flood warnings still ongoing at this point in time.
00:59 We've been watching that last until 745 Central Time, so we've still got a few more minutes for one of those warnings that covers the city of New Orleans.
01:08 So please be cautious as some of these thunderstorms exit because they do have a lot of heavy rainfall.
01:13 Again, that severe weather risk, it's highlighted from north to south as we go through the rest of the night and includes those areas through Louisiana,
01:22 where we've seen some of those thunderstorms into Mississippi, and then farther north, we've focused in on where a lot of those thunderstorms have already developed.
01:29 So this will hopefully wrap up in the next hour or two.
01:32 But what we've had is, again, a lot of rainfall.
01:35 That doesn't let up along the Gulf Coast.
01:37 You can see Mississippi, lower Alabama getting into it as we go into the midnight hour, and keeping with the trend, then, it stays pretty wet into tomorrow morning.
01:45 Still a lot of thunderstorm activity, eastern Texas, across Louisiana into Mississippi.
01:50 So we are going to keep some of this wet weather holding on across the south as we head into tomorrow afternoon.
01:55 Farther north, this thunderstorm activity, it moves east.
02:00 So it does sweep across Chicago as we head through the overnight hours into tomorrow morning.
02:04 Then tomorrow morning, it will depart, head towards Chicago through the middle of the day.
02:08 Notice the drier air pushing in behind it.
02:10 So we actually see the moisture move through some of the Midwest and the lower Great Lakes, and that's what leaves us a mild dry time.
02:19 Of course, this is all after a very warm winter.
02:22 We've had the warmest winter on record here across some of the northern tier.
02:26 And your Tuesday, not offering much in the way of cold, a mild March day in places like Green Bay.