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, …
College Football Forecast Week #1
Here is the week #1 forecast as we see it now. There could see some showers still remaining over the eastern half of the state during tailgate. These could be somewhat heavy especially the farther east you are. These will be moving out of the state during the morning hours, however some rain could still …
Flash Flood Warning (Ringgold, Taylor, Union and Adams) until 10:30am
BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 428 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… RINGGOLD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA… TAYLOR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA… SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA… SOUTHEASTERN …
Iowa Weather Report August 28th 2014
HEADING INTO LABOR DAY: The repetitive pattern looks set to continue for several more days with scattered showers and thunderstorms possible across the state through at least the beginning of the Labor Day Weekend. Today and tomorrow we’ll see multiple rounds of showers and storms with some heavy rainfall possible. The best chance of seeing …
Iowa Weather Report August 27th 2014
PRECIP CHANCES: The next seven days look to see several chances of showers and storms across the state. Not everyone will get rain every day, and most of the case it will not be all-day rain events either. Readings will be fairly uniform during the next week with 70s and 80s across the state dependent …
Iowa Weather Report August 26th 2014
REST OF WEEK: The chances of showers and thunderstorms won’t be going away anytime soon. There will be some chances of precipitation for the rest of the week off and on. This will not be all-day rains so there will be some dry periods intermixed as well. This may lead to some breaks of sunshine …
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 …
Flash Flood Warning (Webster, Franklin, Humboldt, Hancock, Wright and Cerro Gordo) until 9:45am
BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 347 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA… NORTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA… SOUTHEASTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL …