The National Weather Service in Des Moines, along with several other NWS offices along the path, has posted a review of the derecho that crossed the country on Monday. The write up by NWS Des Moines can be found on their website here

The NOAA All-Hazards Weather Radio at Des Moines, callsign WXL-57 broadcasting on 162.550 MHz is currently off-air.   UPDATE: According to the NWS in Des Moines it will be experiencing temporary outages due to utility work at the transmitter site.

The new forum system is up and running, if you were previously registered on the old site you do not need to reregister as your previous username and password should work fine. If you encounter any issues please let me know at webmaster at iowa-skywarn dot org

The NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio transmitter in Ringsted, call sign WNG-688 broadcasting on 162.475 MHz, has been returned to service and is fully operational. LISTENERS WHO PREVIOUSLY TUNED THEIR RECEIVERS TO AN ALTERNATE BROADCAST MAY NOW RESET THEIR FREQUENCY TO 162.475 MHZ TO RECEIVE EMERGENCY MESSAGES FROM RINGSTED WHICH SERVES ALL OR A PORTION …

I finished my attempt at converting the old forum data to the new software last night so hopefully the forums will be up by the weekend, maybe this evening. Also there will be a maintenance window coming up due to software updates, weather permitting.

NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio at Ringsted Iowa (WNG-688 transmitting on 162.475 MHz)is off the air due to telecommunications problems until further notice. Residents in the following counties – that normally tune to the Ringsted frequency must re-tune their radio receivers to receive severe weather warning messages as follows: Emmet County: Tune to Milford KZZ-80 …

Welcome to the new layout for Iowa-Skywarn.org, which is part of the new backend system for the site to hopefully make it easier to keep up to date. Unfortunately the transfer for the message board did not go as planned so the forums are not currently available, which I hope to remedy soon. In the …

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED EVACUATION IMMEDIATE MILLS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN IOWA RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 235 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2011 THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF MILLS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN IOWA. MILLS COUNTY HAS ISSUED A MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER FOR RESIDENTS WEST OF INTERSTATE …