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Summary of Iowa’s 43 River Flood Warnings

  Minor Flooding Cedar River at Vinton until Monday morning – Stage was 17.1/15′ – Major Flooding Forecasted (19.5′) Cedar River at Waterloo until Sunday afternoon – Stage was 17.5/13′ – Flooding will Continue/Rise to 18.6′ Des Moines River near Eddyville until Tuesday morning – Stage was 56.2/61′ – No Flooding/Minor Flooding Forecasted/ Rise to …

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We’re on Repeat: More Severe Weather, More Flooding

Author: Henry Luker, Lead Forecaster Contributor: Jeff Wilcox, Meteorologist-in-Charge It seems like it will never end. From severe weather to flooding, we’ve been seeing the same thing over and over again for the past two or three days. Flash Flood Warnings, Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, and River Flood Warnings seem to be a common thing now. Well, here …

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Iowa Weather Report May 29th 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rQ4KZ__OKI&w=480&h=360] REPEATED ACTIVITY: No big changes through the rest of the week, numerous chances of showers and thunderstorms some of which could be severe and some if not all that may or are likely to produce flooding. There will be numerous dry hours mixed in with some sunshine peaking through, but any sunshine will …

Flooding, Weather Alerts

Flash Flood Watch for Central into Southern and SE Iowa through Wednesday Morning

FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 233 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013 …FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT… .ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE AREA FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING AND POTENTIALLY INTO TONIGHT…PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS WILL LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING IN SOME …

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WXUPDATE: Catastrophic Flooding Event on Queue, Severe Weather possible Later Tonight (MODERATE RISK FOR EXTREME SW IOWA)

The primary headline to highlight here is the significant flash flooding & river flooding potential across Iowa tonight. Many areas across Central Iowa have already had 6-8″  of rain in the past days, with some areas reaching nearly 10″. Combined with more rain today, flash flooding will easily be possible, along with many rivers rising …

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Iowa Weather Report May 27th 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDcgG9luVn4&w=480&h=360] PLETHORA OF PRECIPITATION: It’s going to be a long week across the state with numerous chances of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could contain severe weather. SPC has a slight risk of severe weather for today and tonight across the southern half of the state mainly south of a Sioux City …

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Very active weather ahead. Storm systems arrival is expected to bring muiltple problems to the area including Severe Weather heavy rainfall and flooding.

Regional Weather View A very potent and active weather system will produce a wide range of issues for the Upper Midwest this weekend. With the weather pattern is set up the way it is currently, several waves weather are expected to pass through the region bringing concerns of heavy rainfall and river flash flooding and …

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Rainfall Reports 5/26/2013 PRELIMINARY

Kanawha schoolnet 4.99 Marshalltown airport 4.89 Grinnell airport 4.80 Mount Union public 4.50 Orange City airport 3.87 Sheldon airport 3.58 Iowa Falls airport 3.10 Spencer airport 2.85 Iowa Falls schoolnet 2.77 Forest City schoolnet 2.61 Brooklyn schoolnet 2.46 Monticello airport 2.24 Le Mars airport 2.19 Washington airport 2.03 Cherokee airport 1.90 Algona airport 1.86 Quad …