A large shield of moderate to at times heavy rain with a few embedded thunderstorms continue moving through the eastern half of the state. The general movement of these storms was to the N or NW around the upper level low that is currently moving to the south of the state. With the copious amounts …
Category: All of Iowa
Storms Marching through Iowa
All the warnings have expired and the tornado watch is set to expire shortly. However, showers and thunderstorms will continue moving through the state (N/NE at 40mph). Brief heavy rain, gusty winds up to 40mph and possibly some small hail up to dime size is possible through sunrise as the storms move toward the Interstate …
Slight Risk for Saturday (Major Outbreak across the South)
There is a slight risk for severe weather for today and tonight for the entire state of Iowa except the NW 1/4. Large hail and damaging winds will be the main threats with an isolated tornado not completely ruled out. …IA…MO VALLEY REGION… SCATTERED STG-SVR TSTMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THIS AREA INVOF LARGE …
Rainy and Windy
A band of light to moderate rain continues moving northeastward through the state at midday. It was located mainly between US Hwy 20 and I-80 in central and western Iowa and mainly south of US Hwy 20 in eastern Iowa. Rainfall amounts have been quite substantial, with Lamoni, Chariton and Osecola receiving more than 1.5 …
Slight Risk Friday and Saturday
There is a slight risk of severe weather for Friday and Friday night for areas in Iowa south of a Sioux City to Quad Cities line. The threats will be large hail, damaging winds (mainly south and SW) and a few tornadoes (mainly SW). Storms will be forming along and north of a warm front …
Moisture Moving Back In
Although no moisture is falling from the sky, dewpoints have begun to climb across the state today. After seeing readings in the 20s and even a few teens over the last few days, dewpoints have come up into the 40s to lower 50s across the southern 3/4ths of the state. Dewpoints will continue to slowly …
Severe Weather Outbreak Friday (PM Update)
There is now a slight risk of severe weather for Friday and Friday night in Iowa south of a line from Westfield (20 miles north of Sioux City) to Clinton. This is yet another northward adjustment from this morning (a trend). A Moderate risk has been placed down in Arklatex region into western Mississippi where …
Severe Weather Outbreak Friday?
There is a slight risk of severe weather for Friday and Friday night for areas in Iowa south of a Sioux City to Muscatine line (this is slightly north of yesterday’s outlook) Below is the SPC Day 2 Outlook regarding the potiental severe weather in and around Iowa. …MID MO/MID MS VALLEYS SWD INTO SRN …
Popcorn Showers
A few popcorn showers have developed this afternoon in the central portions of the state. Currently they are very small and widely scattered, still outside of the light rain in southern Iowa, anyone that gets under one of these “popcorn” showers will receive rain for a few minutes at a time and amounts up to …
Cold and Rainy or Warm and Dry
Temperatures across teh state early this afternoon reflect where it is raining (in southern and southwestern Iowa) and where skies are sunny. Although not shown here, dew points where it is raining are in the low 50s, while the rest of the state is seeing dewpoints in the 30s. Temperature drops of 10 degrees or …