Thunderstorms have fired along the cold front across the northern and northeastern counties of the state. Some of the storms have dropped hail over quarter sized. These cells are along a line from New Hampton to Harpers Ferry to just north of Wisconsin Dells. These storms are moving ENE at around 30-35mph. There will likely …
Month: April 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Northern and Central Iowa until 10:00 PM Tonight
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hardin, Harrison, Howard, Humboldt, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Madison, …
WXALERT: Severe Thunderstorm Watch likely within next couple of hours
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has posted Mesoscale Discussion #324, highlighting expected severe weather potential across the state this evening and that a Severe Thunderstorm Watch is likely to be issued within the next couple of hours as storms rapidly develop. Any supercells that form tonight will initially have a very large hail …
Severe Weather Threat Later Today – Very Large Hail Possible
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has posted an elevated risk for severe weather over most of Iowa today. The scattered showers and thunderstorms have moved out of our area allowing things to heat up quickly with temperatures in the 70s and dew points in the mid to upper 50s across the state. We …
Severe weather risk today
Image from storm prediction center The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Slight Risk for severe weather for southern and eastern Iowa today and tonight. This includes everywhere southeast of a line roughly from Stuart to Ames, this includes Des Moines. The best chance of severe weather will be after 5pm mainly, and it will …
Iowa Weather Report April 12th 2014
RAINY WEEKEND: A storm system will move into the state this weekend bringing several rounds of showers and thunderstorms to the state. Skies will be partly sunny to mostly cloudy to start. We could see some morning showers and or storms, but none of those are expected to be strong at this time. Some of …
Elevated Risk of Severe Weather Today
It’s about time spring thunderstorms arrived. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has posted an elevated risk of severe weather for the southeastern half of Iowa for this afternoon and this evening. Clouds are expected to move into the area Saturday morning in association with a low pressure center moving across Minnesota. Scattered showers and …
POLYGON Issuance #6 What’s Going on at WSI?
In the 6th Issuance of POLYGON on April 11th, Jim Politis joined Henry for a discussion on the goings on at WSI, where Jim works. Jim, a former meteorologist at WCAX in Burlington VT and KIMT in Mason City Iowa, is now a beta tester for Weather Services International, aka WSI, who is the leading …
Temperature report warm day, highs reached just shy of 80.F
Spring Scene April 11th 2014 Today was a very warm day across south central Iowa, so warm in fact that it felt summer-like as temperatures warmed to the upper 70s, just shy of 80.F. South winds were strong today, but not as strong as the past couple warm ups. Lots of people took advantage of …
Iowa Weather Report April 11th 2014
THE NEXT STORM: Mostly sunny skies will be around the state again today with readings in the upper 60s to the middle 70s. The next storm comes in for the weekend with a chance of showers and thunderstorms possible. There is a chance some of the storms could be strong with mainly hail and gusty …