The weather today will remain the same for the next few days with near average temperatures and dry conditions. This will be good news for those continuing to clean up from Saturday’s tornadoes in western Iowa and those experiencing flooding that will be ongoing for quite some time, especially along the Mississippi River. A new …
Category: All of Iowa
Severe Weather Threat Ending
Storms continue in an isolated fashion across the southeastern counties of the state, however they are not severe at this time. These storms will move out of the state in the next two hours or so. Cooler, drier and quieter conditions will follow sans for a few showers tomorrow. The next best chance of rain …
Moderate Risk Eastern Iowa Today
There is a moderate risk of severe weather across the eastern counties of the state today, with a slight risk mainly east of I-35. Like posted last night, all modes of severe weather will be possible, including tornadoes (some possible long tracked ones), large hail (some significant) and damaging winds. Main window looks to be …
Severe Weather Continues
Many tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings this last evening and even continuing into the early morning hours. A tornado watch remains in effect across the far northern counties until 5am Sunday morning. There will be a break in the action before the final round of severe weather sweeps through the eastern half of the state …
Moderate Risk Today and Sunday
There is a moderate risk of severe weather today for the northern sections of Iowa, with a slight risk surrounding it including all but the southeastern counties. Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes will be possible. The better chances of tornadoes looks to be across the northwestern counties at this time, with large hail possible …
Severe Parameters for Saturday
Here are the parameters from the 00z NAM model run at 7pm Saturday. All of the parameters are close to the top of all three scales across a large portion of the state. Also not featured on here is the CAPE values, which will be in the 1200-2400 J/kg (possibly up to 3000 J/kg according …
Stormy Weekend
There is still a slight risk of severe weather tomorrow for most of the state except the SE. Still looks like all modes of severe weather will be possible with large hail being the biggest threat on Saturday. Moderate risk of severe weather is still outlooked across the eastern counties with a slight risk everywhere …
Moderate Risk for Sunday
This is going to be a significant weather event across the state this weekend. There is a slight risk of severe weather for Saturday for the entire state. This is possibly going to be upgraded to moderate later today. There already is a moderate risk of severe weather for Sunday across the eastern part of …
Cold Rain Tonight
A cold moderate to heavy rain has been falling most of the afternoon across the southern counties of the state. Temperatures have been held down in the 40s to near 50 where rain has been falling while north of the rain shafts, readings have risen into the 60s. Rain will continue moving across the state …
Slight Risk for Saturday
Here’s the risk area for severe weather for Saturday. This covers the entire state and all modes of severe weather, as was mentioned earlier will be possible. There is also a threat of severe weather for areas east of I-35 on Sunday. All modes will be possible then as well.