A beautiful Saturday is in store for Iowa and Iowa State fans alike with Mostly Sunny to Clear conditions expected for the majority of the day. Iowa State will be taking on Kansas State at 11 AM with the kickoff temperature set to 69 degrees with a light northerly wind at 5-10 MPH. This trend will …
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NWS Quad Cities Radar Down
The NWS WSR88-D Radar (also known as Doppler Radar or Dual-Pol Radar) has gone down at the NWS Office at the Davenport Municipal Airport due to a communications outage. The image shown above was the last image sent out before the radar went down. It showed a line of intense but non-severe thunderstorms moving over …
August 31st Severe Weather Report
Severe storms tracked all the way from eastern Nebraska and western Iowa before reaching the local area around 9pm last night in the form of a very large line that stretched across the entire state. This line produced wind damage, heavy rain and flash flooding in our areas as in dropped another 2-3″ of rain …
Severe Weather Outbreak for the Labor Day Weekend?
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has posted an enhanced risk of severe weather over the area today. As a strong storm system ejects moves into the northern to central Plains, all modes of severe weather will be possible, including large hail over two inches, damaging winds to 75 MPH later in …
August 28th rainfall report
What a wet month this is turning out to be, more bouts of heavy rain impacted central Iowa yesterday, first in the morning, and then again in the evening hours. The morning storms brought half inch to an inch. The photo above was taken in Downtown Des Moines as a low cloud deck was set …
Enhanced Severe Weather Threat on Sunday with All Modes of Severe Weather Possible
It’s certainly been a while since we last spoke of an organized severe weather threat around Iowa. We’ve seen a lot of hit and miss thunderstorms, a nice collection of strong thunderstorms, and a few borderline severe thunderstorms here and there. But, it looks like mother nature has a well thought out plan for Sunday, …
NOAA Weather Radio WNG-666 at Iowa Falls is Off the Air
The NOAA Weather Radio transmitter WNG-666 at Iowa Falls, Iowa is off-the-air due to a communications or hardware failure. Technicians have been notified but there is not estimated restore time. The Iowa Falls NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts on channel 6, or a frequency of 162.525 MHZ, and services the following counties in Iowa: Butler, Franklin, …
August 25th Warm temp report
Yesterday and today brought very hot weather and high humidity to southern Iowa as a warm front lingered and eventually passed north of our area drawing in the heat. Highs were in the lower to middle 90s for about 4-5 days and dewpoints were in the middle to upper 70s each day producing heat index …
Dangerous Heat Continues through Monday
Dangerous heat conditions will prevail across the southeastern portion of the state again tomorrow as heat indices climb to the mid to upper 90s and low 100s in some areas. For this reason, the NWS in the Quad Cities has issued a Heat Advisory for Henry, Des Moines, Van Buren, Lee, Muscatine, …
Central Iowa rainfall reports
A stationary front is to thank for bringing the resent rainfall across southern Iowa late last night and this afternoon. The rain was needed to continue to add moisture to lawns and crops after a warm and fairly dry end to July and start to August. Even more added news is the rain was not …