Forecasters with the National Weather Service say locally heavy rain will impact an area from the central Gulf Coast to the Southeast today, May 23, 2017. Several inches of rain could fall in just a few hours. The areas receiving this rain can be seen in this water vapor animation created with images captured by GOES East earlier today. Water vapor imagery is created with channel 3 -- the upper-level water vapor infrared channel of GOES East's imager -- and is used for locating areas of atmosphe

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The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center has outlined an enhanced risk of severe weather for parts of the Mid-Mississippi River and Lower Ohio River Valleys on Tuesday (2/28). Large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes are possible. Heavy rainfall in these regions will also increase the threat of flash flooding. The area where these severe storms are likely to occur can be seen in this GOES composite colorized infrared imagery captured earlier today, February 28, 2017. Composite ima