Month: June 2016

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MIDDAY UPDATE: Significant Severe Weather Threat over East Central Iowa Today

The latest outlook updates from the Storm Prediction Center this morning continues the moderate risk of severe weather, albeit slightly farther south across the Quad Cities metro, and has it extending into much of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The enhanced risk has been narrowed down to areas east of Interstate 380, north of Interstate 80, …

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Widespread Damaging Wind and Tornado Threat Across Far Eastern Iowa Today

A moderate risk of severe weather is in place across far eastern Iowa today for the threat of widespread, intense damaging wind threat. Storms are expected to start discretely this afternoon with all modes possible, including damaging winds to 70 MPH and strong tornadoes. A quick evolution to a damaging wind threat is expected, though the worst of this issue will be farther to the east. Complete information on timing is available in the link below.

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Heat Advisory for South Central Iowa through 7:00 p.m.

The National Weather Service in Des Moines and Quad Cities has issued a Heat Advisory for much of south central Iowa from noon today to 7:00 p.m. Hot temperatures into the 90s todays with dew points into the 70s across the advisory area will lead to heat indices nearing 110° this afternoon. Use extra caution …

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Flash Flooding Ongoing Across the State this Morning

Flash flooding is ongoing across much of the state this morning. Doppler radar rainfall estimates currently show many areas 3″+ areas in north central Iowa and in southern Benton, southern Linn, and northern Johnson counties – with some areas nearing 5-6″ locally. This is a dangerous situation with continued rainfall across the area. Please heed …

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Flash Flood Warning for Butler, Grundy, Black Hawk and Bremer Counties until 7am

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1253 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… BUTLER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA… GRUNDY COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA… BLACK HAWK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN IOWA… BREMER COUNTY …

Flash Flood Warning

Flash Flood Warning for Hancock, Winnebago, Kossuth, Worth and Cerro Gordo Counties until 6am

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1203 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA… WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA… NORTHEASTERN KOSSUTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA… …