The National Weather Service in Juneau issued a severe thunderstorm for the city and bureau of Juneau at 3:26 p.m. Alaska time Monday — the first severe thunderstorm warning eve

JUNEAU, Alaska – Juneau, Alaska, received its first Severe Thunderstorm Warning in the city's history on Monday afternoon. The warning was issued by the National Weather Service office in Juneau at 3:26 p.m. local time as a supercell thunderstorm made its way over Alaska's capital city.

The storms with very heavy in parts of Siouxland will decrease in intensity Tuesday night, although rain chances will continue into Wednesday as a heatwave approaches for the weekend.

Hail, lightning, gusty winds and heavy rain–all things we see here in Southern Colorado and the FOX21 Storm Team is here to help you navigate through all of it. But do you know what it means when meteorologists call a thunderstorm a severe thunderstorm?

The warning is in effect until 6:15 p.m. Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Most of the strikes occur in the summer, killing 20 people each year, according to the NWS. Chance of lightning increases as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is overhead. It diminishes as the storm moves away.

Spotty showers and thunderstorms will continue this afternoon, so be sure to take an umbrella if you’ll be out & about. Watch for ponding and localized flooding of poor drainage areas. It’ll remain mostly cloudy, warm, and very humid. High, 85. Tonight, showers and thundershowers will diminish. Low, 73.

The severe weather potential intensifies Thursday, with the Storm Prediction Center highlighting a 15% chance of severe thunderstorms across central Pennsylvania. Dew points in the upper 60s to lower 70s will contribute to high humidity, and a surface cold front approaching from the Ohio Valley could trigger significant thunderstorm activity.

A severe thunderstorm warning was released by the NWS Raleigh NC on Monday at 7:21 p.m. in effect until 7:45 p.m. The warning is for Chatham, Harnett, Lee and Wake counties.

Guwahati: The MHA has issued a red alert for extremely heavy rain, thunderstorms, lightning, and squalls in Assam and Meghalaya on June 18 and 19, deescalating to an orange alert on June 20.The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) in a statement said the weather pattern indicated that heavy to very heavy rainfall was expected in