A multi-day severe weather outbreak dominates today’s brief, with an Enhanced Risk across the Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes, more than a dozen tornado reports, and roughly 390,000 customers without power from Illinois to Michigan. We also cover CISA’s latest Known Exploited Vulnerabilities additions, the National Hurricane Center’s watch on the Bay of Campeche, the national wildfire picture, and FEMA’s June 14 assistance deadline for Maui and Honolulu counties. EM Morning Brief is your concise daily update on national and state-by-state emergency management news. Produced by Sitch Radio, an EOC Voices podcast.
Key Takeaways
• Severe weather: An Enhanced Risk covers the Upper Mississippi Valley, Midwest, and Great Lakes on June 11, with strong tornadoes, large hail, and 75 mph winds expected through the day.
• Lifelines: About 390,000 customers are without power across the region, concentrated in Illinois and Michigan, plus more than a thousand Chicago-area flight disruptions.
• Cyber: CISA added three exploited vulnerabilities on June 9 affecting Arista EOS, Chromium V8, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, with required federal remediation.
• Tropics: The National Hurricane Center is watching the Bay of Campeche for possible development Friday, with no current US threat.
• Recovery: June 14 is the FEMA Individual Assistance and SBA loan deadline for Maui and Honolulu counties, Hawaii.
• CBS Detroit: More than 100,000 customers without power amid severe storms in Michigan
• WNEM: Line of storms causing power outages across mid-Michigan
Minnesota
• Star Tribune: Tens of thousands without power after Minnesota storms
• KARE 11: Thousands of Minnesotans without power after overnight storms
Missouri
• ABC7 News: Northern Missouri tornado reports and PDS warning
Wisconsin
• WMTV 15 News: Thousands of Madison Gas and Electric and Alliant Energy customers without power in southern Wisconsin
• News 8000: Tornado outbreak strikes the central US
Transcripts
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A multi day severe weather outbreak across the central United States is the dominant operational story this morning.
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The Storm Prediction center places parts of the upper Mississippi Valley, Midwest and Great Lakes under an Enhanced Risk Level 3 of 5 for June 11 with a threat of strong tornadoes, hail larger than 2 inches and wind gusts to 75 mph.
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Overnight storms on June 10 produced more than a dozen tornado reports across northern Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois and a particularly dangerous situation tornado warning tracked from northern Missouri into Southern Iowa.
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Roughly 390,000 customers are without power across the region this morning and Chicago area airports saw more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations.
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Additional rounds of storms are expected through the day, with tornadoes the primary afternoon threat in the tropics.
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The National Hurricane Center's June 11 outlook is monitoring a westward moving tropical wave near the Yucatan Peninsula.
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A broad area of low pressure could form over the Bay of Campeche on Friday, though development chances remain low and there is no current threat to the United States.
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On the fireside, the National Interagency Fire center keeps the national preparedness level at 2, with about 10 large fires being actively suppressed per the June 10 Incident Management Situation Report.
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Year to date, activity stands near 34,700 wildfires on cybersecurity CISA's most recent known Exploited Vulnerabilities Update an official Update published roughly two days ago added three flaws to its catalog on June 9, affecting Arista EOS, the Google Chromium V8 engine and Cisco Catalyst SD WAN manager Federal civilian agencies are directed to remediate on CISA's schedule.
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On the recovery side, FEMA reminds Survivors that Sunday, June 14th is the deadline to apply for individual assistance and SBA disaster loans tied to the March Kona Lo flooding in Maui and Honolulu counties, Hawaii lets run through the states, Hawaii Sunday, June 14th is the deadline for survivors in Maui and Honolulu counties to apply for FEMA individual assistance and SBA low interest disaster loans tied to the 3-10-24 Kona low flooding.
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FEMA urges eligible residents to apply before the cutoff.
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Illinois the state is the hardest hit by the June 10 to 11 storms.
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ComEd reported more than 290,000 customers without power at the peak, nearly 200,000 of them in Cook county as wind gusts reached 80 mph.
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Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation logged about 2,800 tree emergency requests.
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ComEd expects 80% of outages restored by late June 13.
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A greater tornado risk continues into Thursday, with two rounds of storms expected through the evening.
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Indiana Northern Indiana falls within the enhanced risk area.
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NIPSCO reported more than 4,000 customers without power from the June 10 storms, with additional severe weather possible Thursday.
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Iowa Numerous tornado warnings and large hail accompanied the June 10 to 11 storms, a particularly dangerous situation.
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Tornado warning tracked from northern Missouri into southern Iowa and eastern Iowa remains within the higher end tornado threat area for Thursday.
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Kansas was among the states reporting tornadoes during the June 10 round of storms, which continue to track east.
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Michigan Consumers Energy reported more than 101,000 customers without power late June 10, falling to about 77,000 by Thursday morning with additional DTE energy outages.
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Two people were injured near Plainwell when a motorcycle struck a downed tree.
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Lower Michigan remains within the enhanced risk area for June 11.
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Minnesota overnight storms left more than 74,000 customers without power statewide, including roughly 54,000 Xcel Energy customers with tornado reports across the southern part of the state.
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Missouri Northern Missouri saw the particularly dangerous situation tornado warning and multiple tornado reports during the June 10 round before the system moved into Iowa and Illinois.
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Wisconsin Thousands of Madison Gas and Electric and Alliant Energy customers lost power amid June 10th tornadoes and large hail across the southern part of the state.
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Southern Wisconsin remains within the enhanced risk for June 11th.
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All other states and territories have no significant updates in the last 24 hours that wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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