The primary headline to highlight here is the significant flash flooding & river flooding potential across Iowa tonight. Many areas across Central Iowa have already had 6-8″ of rain in the past days, with some areas reaching nearly 10″. Combined with more rain today, flash flooding will easily be possible, along with many rivers rising …
Month: May 2013
Iowa Weather Report May 27th 2013
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDcgG9luVn4&w=480&h=360] PLETHORA OF PRECIPITATION: It’s going to be a long week across the state with numerous chances of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could contain severe weather. SPC has a slight risk of severe weather for today and tonight across the southern half of the state mainly south of a Sioux City …
Very active weather ahead. Storm systems arrival is expected to bring muiltple problems to the area including Severe Weather heavy rainfall and flooding.
Regional Weather View A very potent and active weather system will produce a wide range of issues for the Upper Midwest this weekend. With the weather pattern is set up the way it is currently, several waves weather are expected to pass through the region bringing concerns of heavy rainfall and river flash flooding and …
Rainfall Reports 5/26/2013 PRELIMINARY
Kanawha schoolnet 4.99 Marshalltown airport 4.89 Grinnell airport 4.80 Mount Union public 4.50 Orange City airport 3.87 Sheldon airport 3.58 Iowa Falls airport 3.10 Spencer airport 2.85 Iowa Falls schoolnet 2.77 Forest City schoolnet 2.61 Brooklyn schoolnet 2.46 Monticello airport 2.24 Le Mars airport 2.19 Washington airport 2.03 Cherokee airport 1.90 Algona airport 1.86 Quad …
Severe Weather Threats Next Two Days
There is a small slight risk of severe weather for today and tonight for the far western counties of the state right along the Missouri River. The main threat with any activity would likely be from large hail. There is also a slight risk of severe weather for Monday and Monday night for the southwestern …
Iowa Weather Report May 26th 2013
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-58ubxMVOY&w=480&h=360] REPEATED RAINS: There will be continued chances of showers and thunderstorms across the state through the rest of this weekend into next week. Severe weather is possible in an isolated fashion early on with it becoming more likely by Tuesday at the earliest. With the repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms, some heavy …
Parkersburg-New Hartford EF5 5 Years Later Part #3
The damage was done to the town of Parkersburg and the subdivision just north of New Hartford. Several other residents and farms between the two towns and on eastward into Black Hawk County were also damaged if not destroyed. The storm however wasn’t done producing tornadoes. As everyone begin to assess the situation in those …
Parkersburg-New Hartford EF5 5 years Later Part #2
The radar above showed the storm moving into southern Butler and northern Grundy Counties. The small red area east of Ackley was to be where the tornado would come out from. At 4:46pm, the NWS in Des Moines reissued the tornado warning specifically to Butler and Northern Grundy Counties BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO …
Parkersburg-New Hartford EF5 5 Years Later Part #1
A typical Memorial Day weekend was in the works across the state. It was a Sunday, many people were running around, graduation parties were taking shape, people were outside enjoying the warm weather that encompassed the state that day. Meanwhile the atmosphere was about to unleash a monster that would be the first catastrophic tornado …
Iowa Weather Report May 25th 2013
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVj100jxxk4&w=480&h=360] SOGGY WEEKEND: This couldn’t have come at a worse time, the first weekend of “summer” and rain will pelt the state off and on throughout the weekend into next week. It’s also going to feel more like Early-Mid April than late May with readings in the upper 50s to lower 70s across the …