Heavy rain possible Wednesday with a chance for some stronger storms

Rain is approaching from the west Wednesday morning. Steady rain is likely during the morning hours but severe storms, at least during the morning, are expected to stay to our south. Parts of eastern Iowa are seeing severe thunderstorms and are under watches and warnings to start Wednesday. The steady rain could linger into the early afternoon hours when some of the storms could be a bit stronger.

Heavy rain is likely on Wednesday with most of southeast Wisconsin getting between a half inch to 1.50" of rain. Higher rain totals could happen in any storms that become strong to severe. 

We could see some strong to severe storms in southeast Wisconsin, mainly in the afternoon and evening. There's no change to our severe risk locally for today with areas south of I-94 under a Level 2 Slight risk and northern counties in a Level 1 Marginal Risk. The warm front is expected to stay in northern IL and severe storms won't get much farther north than that. The bigger area for severe storms and possibly a tornado outbreak are in Illinois and Indiana where a Level 4 Moderate Risk has been issued. 

IF we do see any strong to severe storms (which is an if), an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out towards the IL border. Otherwise, hail and gusty wind would be the main threats with some brief street flooding also possible. 

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