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At 518 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles southwest of Spring Creek, or 29 miles east of Martin, moving northeast at 35 mph. HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE…Radar indicated. IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include… Saint Francis, Spring Creek, Grass Mountain, and southwestern Rosebud Reservation.

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At 516 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 17 miles northeast of Colfax, or 20 miles southeast of Winnfield, moving southwest at 15 mph. HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 40 mph. SOURCE…Radar indicated. IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include… Colfax, Montgomery, Dry Prong, Lake Iatt, Williana, Bentley and Aloha.

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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* WHAT…Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE…A portion of southeast Wisconsin, including the following counties, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha. * WHEN…Until 815 PM CDT. * IMPACTS…Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS… – At 515 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. – Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1.5 inches are expected over the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding. – Some locations that will experience flooding include… Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, West Bend,

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