Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Storms to be followed by more rain

By TOM LAVENTURE

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IRONWOOD — A severe storm system that prompted weather warnings late Tuesday, but no tornadoes, will give way to more rain into next week, according to the National Weather Service.

National Weather Service offices in Duluth and Marquette issued thunderstorm warnings into the late evening along with tornado and flood watches for Ashland, Iron, Sawyer and the south eastern Upper Peninsula.

The system included a cluster of storms, and produced pingpong size hail as it moved through Sawyer County, said Joe Moore, a meteorologist with the Nation...