Southern Iowa is still dealing with the effects from flooding from our recent rains September 9th when a frontal boundary caused the storms to develop that dropped 3-5″ of rain in some areas, but especially in Madison and Warren counties. Flash flooding was reported in Winterset, Norwalk, Spring Hill and Indainaola areas and included the North river flooding over parts of Highway 28 south of Norwalk. Some of the highiest rainfall reports include 5.75″ from Bevington. As of 8:41pm September 11th Highway 48 south of Norwalk remains closed due to flooding, and is expected to re open mid day Friday as the river goes below flood stage. The Des Moines airport got 3.00″ of rain which broke a daily record for them. My raingauge had 1.69″ of rain in it continuing a very wet streak we started in August. Since August 1st we have received 12.67″ of rain. Below is a list of reports and rainfall totals on September 9th.

Norwalk 3-5″ deep water on Cherry street. Street barricaded
Norwalk Highway 28 and 23rd closed, covered with water
5 miles N Indainola Summerset road closed due to flooding
4 miles SSW Winterset Pammel pard road closed due to flooding
8 miles SSW Earlham Water rescue at Pitzer Road due to flooding, no injuries
5 miles WSW East Peru 330th street closed due to flooding
6 miles NW Pella 1″ Water over Dubuque drive
Bevington 5.75″
Cumming 4.46″
Spring Hill 4.08″
Indianola 2.65″
Hartford 5.41″
Des Moines Airport 3.00″ ( New Daily Record )
Des Moines fairmount park ( my station) 1.69″
Clive 2.11″
Knoxville 4.00″
Pella 2.65″
Prairie City 2.86″
Newton 2.78″
Earlham 3.34″
Johnston 2.14″