Here are the storm reports from NWS in Sioux Falls, Des Moines and the Quad Cities. (Iowa Storm Reports Only) 10:25am Sioux 3 S Maurice,IA HAIL 0.75 12:15pm Woodbury Oto,IA TSTM WND GST 60 corn flattened 1:37 pm Kossuth 8 N Fenton,IA HAIL 0.88 2:15 pm Kossuth 2 Nw Lu Verne,IA TSTM WND DMG 0 …
Category: All of Iowa
Evening Notes
Thunderstorms, not severe, continue across southern, southeastern and east central Iowa this evening. The rain could be heavy at times with these storms. Flash Flood Warnings are in effect in the Des Moines area from earlier thunderstorms. The lightning was so tremendous, that this blog writer had to shut the computer off entirely for several …
More Severe Storms Possible
There is a slight risk of severe weather for Tuesday and Tuesday night for parts of the state west of a line from Decorah to Centerville. This will mainly occur later in the afternoon and into the evening hours. The main threats will likely be large hail and damaging winds. There will likely be another …
Heat and Humidity
The first heat wave of the year is beginning across the state. A heat advisory is in effect for areas along and south of Interstate 80. Currently at early afternoon, temperatures have already eclipsed the 90 degree mark across most of the state. With dewpoints in the 70s to around 80, this is leading to …
Thunderstorms Continue
Scattered thunderstorms continue across the eastern half of the state late this evening. The strongest storm was in Louisa county in SE Iowa with many of the storms forming along a warm front that is slowly moving northeastward through the state. The slow movement of these storms have led to numerous Flash Flood Warnings across …
TORNADO WATCH #488
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a TORNADO watch until 10pm for the following counties in Iowa, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Kossuth, Marshall, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Poweshiek, Sac, Story, Tama, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, Wright, …
The Tornado Threat Today
The threat for tornadoes today has increased since the first outlook very early this morning. Any storms that would have the capability of producing tornadoes would form along a weak warm front in northeastern and east-central Iowa. The main threat will still likely be large hail and damaging winds this afternoon and evening, with the …
More Severe Weather
There is a slight risk for severe weather for this afternoon and tonight for the eastern 3/4ths of the state, mainly east of US Hwy 59. The main threats will be large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes (especially in the evening). Currently this morning there is numerous showers and thunderstorms which will be around …
Best Day of the Weekend
Today will likely be the best day of the Father’s Day weekend. Dew Points will be lower today, high temperatures will be in the 80s. There will be no severe weather today, quite a change over the last few days. However, it’s not expected to last. Already a slight risk of Severe Weather has been …
Friday’s Storm Reports
Here is a list of the storm reports from the NWS in Des Moines and the Quad Cities on the very severe weather that moved through this morning and then again this afternoon and early this evening. Morning Storm Reports 06/19/2009 4:29 Audubon Gray,IA TSTM WND DMG 0 strong straight line winds. sparking transformers and …