Tuesday to Wednesday Storm Threat

If you were up early this morning you saw quite the light show, will a thunderstorm that popped up east of Sterling overnight and early this morning. There was quite a bit of rain as well and lots of lightning reported as the cell slowly moved north northeast through Leaf River and Mount Morris. It then weakened over Rockford.

There's a lull in the activity for now but more isolated storms possible through midday, but already noticing a few more isolated showers and storms popping up just south of the Stateline, these will lift north northeast across northern Illinois. You'll want to keep the umbrella handy with mainly isolated storms through the midday and then we will notice more coverage this afternoon and overnight.

The severe threat will be fairly low, but we could see a couple stronger storms that will be capable of heavy rain and gusty winds. Even some smaller hail will be possible in a few cells. We will notice more scattered showers and storms Wednesday afternoon with again a Marginal severe threat. Its a level one on the scale which is low, but can't rule out a few stronger storms with gusty winds and heavy rain fall.  Some futurecast models say half and inch to an inch and a half of rain is possible. Locally higher is some storms as well with heavy rain biggest concern.