FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 233 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013 …FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT… .ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE AREA FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING AND POTENTIALLY INTO TONIGHT…PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS WILL LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING IN SOME …
Author: Jeff Wilcox
Severe Weather Risk Next Two Days
SPC has a slight risk of severe weather for today and tonight for the southern 2/3rds of the state. All modes of severe weather will be possible with large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes possible. The tornado threat will be confined to near the MO border with the large hail and wind threat …
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 …
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 …
Iowa Weather Report May 24th 2013
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-kgPyNKLTw&w=480&h=360] ROUNDS OF STORMS AHEAD: Today will be the last fully dry day for a while across the state with the next system approaching from the west. Sunshine will be plentiful across the state today with readings still several degrees below average with upper 60s to lower 70s possible. Storms will roll into the …