Severe Weather

Severe Storms To Hit Parts Of Midwest, East Through Weekend

At a Glance

Rounds of severe storms are expected in parts of the Midwest and East through the weekend.
Damaging winds are the primary threat.
Local flash flooding, hail and a few tornadoes may also occur.
A complex of damaging thunderstorms known as a derecho downed trees in the Midwest Thursday.

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Severe storms in the Midwest and East could produce more rounds of destructive winds as well as hail, a few tornadoes and some flash flooding through the weekend.

Below is a look at what's to come.

Here's what we are tracking right now. Clusters of showers and storms are ongoing from the mid-Mississippi Valley into the South and East.

Sunday's severe weather threat could feature clusters of storms that produce wind damage from the Ohio Valley into the mid-Atlantic.

The weather pattern over the next couple of days will be similar to the one that produced a widespread damaging wind event called a derecho in the Midwest on Thursday.

(MORE: Midwest Derecho Carves Path Of Destruction)

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