Heavy rain, potentially severe weather forecast through Thursday

[April 16, 2013]  The Lincoln office of the National Weather Service posted the weather graphic below for Tuesday:

An active weather pattern will be in place for the next few days, with periods of showers and thunderstorms. As a frontal boundary lifts northward Tuesday night and Wednesday, warmer and more unstable air will result in an increasing threat of severe weather. The severe weather risk will continue into Thursday, before a cold front pushes through the state Thursday night. Most of central and southeast Illinois is likely to see a total of 2.5 to 3.5 inches of rain before this system finally exits the area Thursday night.

For updates, check http://www.crh.noaa.gov/wxstory.php?site=ilx and http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/.

[From National Weather Service, Lincoln office]