Slight Chance of Severe Storms

Heavy rain fell to the north and the south of the Quad Cities early Tuesday.  While the metro area only picked .09" of rain in a thunderstorm, Dubuque, Iowa, saw more than an inch of rain fall in just a couple of hours before sunrise.

There is plenty of moisture available and any showers and thunderstorms that develop today, tonight, and Wednesday (and, again, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday with the next system) have the potential to drop heavy rain and cause flash flooding.

If that wasn't bad enough on top of the recent 2-6" of rain that fell over the Memorial Day weekend, with the building heat and humidity, strong to severe thunderstorms are possible later Tuesday.

Here is the outline area by the Storm Prediction Center that's under a "slight" risk (yellow shading) between 7 a.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday.

Large hail and damaging winds are the biggest threats with any severe storms that develop in and near the Quad Cities.

CBS4 meteorologist Anthony Peoples