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Map Phenomena States Warning Summary - Tornado HQ Warning Counties Warning End Map
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special marine
At 1101 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm with possible waterspouts was located near New Ground Rocks Light. The strong thunderstorm was nearly stationary.  
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special marine
At 1024 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 24 nm southeast of Tortugas Ecological Reserve South. The strong thunderstorm was nearly stationary.  
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At 814 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 3 miles east of Meadow Grove, or 12 miles west of Norfolk, moving southeast at 20 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Antelope / Boone / Madison / Pierce EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 907 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 7 nm southeast of Wood's Wall West Crack, moving northwest at 10 knots.  
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NE
At 746 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles west of Pierce, or 16 miles northwest of Norfolk, moving southeast at 30 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Madison / Pierce / Stanton EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 839 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Stock Island, moving northeast at 5 knots.  
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special marine
At 824 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Joe's Tug. The strong thunderstorm was nearly stationary.  
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special marine
AT 715 PM CHST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WATERSPOUTS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 NM EAST OF COCO ISLAND TO 11 NM SOUTH OF IPAN BUOY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 KNOTS.  
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severe thunderstorm
SD
At 228 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles southwest of Platte, or 24 miles northwest of Lake Andes, moving northeast at 20 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Aurora / Charles Mix / Douglas / Gregory EXPIRED show me
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SD
At 1258 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 15 miles southwest of Grass Ranch Colony, or 18 miles southwest of Kimball, moving east at 30 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Aurora / Brule / Charles Mix EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 142 AM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Guana River State Park to 10 nm northeast of Vilano Beach, moving west at 15 knots.  
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severe thunderstorm
SD
At 1229 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles south of Iona, or 22 miles east of Winner, moving east at 30 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Brule / Charles Mix / Gregory EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 1219 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing waterspouts was located 13 nm northeast of L Tower, moving south at 10 knots.  
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special marine
At 1211 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Cudjoe Bay. The strong thunderstorm was nearly stationary.  
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special marine
At 1042 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing waterspouts was located near Palm Beach Shores, moving southeast at 10 knots.  
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severe thunderstorm
SD
At 737 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles east of Bunker, or 26 miles northwest of Murdo, moving north at 30 mph.  
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severe thunderstorm
SD
At 727 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles northeast of Ottumwa, or 27 miles northeast of Philip, moving north at 15 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Haakon / Ziebach EXPIRED show me
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special marine
At 917 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing waterspouts was located 12 nm southwest of R Tower, moving northwest at 10 knots.  
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severe thunderstorm
SD
At 812 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Capa, or 15 miles northwest of Murdo, moving north at 30 mph.  
show me the full warning 		Jones / Stanley EXPIRED show me
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SD
At 745 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Okaton, or 13 miles west of Murdo, moving north at 35 mph.  
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things you should know about this experimental live-updating page

  1. Warnings are delayed. If you are currently affected by severe storms, you should also be paying attention to a local source of information (tv, radio, etc), or have a weather radio, because information on this site can be delayed enough that it could cause you to lose valuable lead time.
  2. The map sometimes breaks in odd ways. At this time, I'm not sure of the actual cause, but every so often, the mapping software will basically lose track of the actual center of the map. It's most obvious when part of the map is black (it's not loading the background). Also, you may notice this bug when you zoom to a specific location or warning, and the map is not centered properly.

    How to fix: The easiest thing is to reload the page. Otherwise, you can try the following to get the map to fix itself:

    1. enter/exit fullscreen map mode
    2. resize the browser window (if a desktop)
    3. change the orientation of the screen (if a tablet/mobile device)
    4. add a new location marker (you can delete the new marker later)

  3. There is experimental voice notifications support. To my knowledge, this only works in the Chrome and Safari browsers. Chrome's default English voice will randomly stop with long text, so I've tried to break up the text into smaller chunks so this doesn't happen. However, this can lead to awkward pauses when it's speaking.
  4. There is now support for tracking custom locations. If you have voice notifications enabled, it will tell you which locations are impacted when it reads new warnings.
  5. Radar on the map will automatically refresh every 5 minutes.
  6. This page is under active development. And things tend to break. A lot. If you think something is wrong, you can reload the page. You can also use the normal severe weather map page which has the same data but does not automatically update.

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