Harrison-Shelby-Pottawattamie-Mills-Montgomery-Fremont …FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY…
* A frontal boundary will continue to provide a focus for thunderstorms to move along and through the area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS… A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding. Flash flooding is a very dangerous situation. You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
**FLASH FLOOD WATCH from 1-p.m. today through 7-a.m. Thursday**
Today: Mostly cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High 79. Variable breeze @ 10-15.
Tonight: Mo. cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms ending late. Some heavy rain possible. Low 65. W @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: Mo. Cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High 76. W/NW @ 10-15.
Friday: Mo. cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High 78.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms late. High 82.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 83. Our Low this morning was 68. As of 6-a.m. today, we had received 1.75 inches of rain over the past 23-hours in Atlantic. Add that to the 1.6” we had for the period ending 7-a.m. Tuesday, our rain total amounts to 3.35 inches. Last year on this date our High was 91 and the Low was 64. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 101 in 1937 & 1988. The Record Low was 40, in 1961.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cole Hamels allowed four hits over seven innings, Delino DeShields doubled home two runs and the Texas Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 4-1 to extend their winning streak to a season-high four games. The Royals have lost eight straight, matching their season high, and 14 of 15.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Matt Carpenter hit a tiebreaking solo homer with two out in the ninth, helping the St. Louis Cardinals edge the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6. Carpenter also had a tying two-run double in St. Louis’ four-run seventh. Tommy Pham homered and singled for the Cardinals, and Kolten Wong also went deep.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa wrestler Sam Stoll has been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries after he was accidentally shot in the knee early Tuesday. Iowa City police responded to a report of a gunshot victim who showed up at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics shortly before 5 a.m. Police say a preliminary investigation found Stoll was shot by mistake in a resident and several people were present.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alcides Escobar’s streak of making 406 consecutive starts as the Kansas City Royals shortstop is about to end. Manager Ned Yost said he plans to play Adalberto Mondesi, 22, a couple of days a week at shortstop. Escobar, 31, has been the Royals everyday shortstop since 2011 after being acquired from the Milwaukee Brewers as part of the Zack Greinke trade.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jackson Kowar struck out a career-high 13 in 6 2/3 innings as defending national champion Florida eliminated Texas from the College World Series with a 6-1 win. Kowar held the Longhorns scoreless on five hits. He mixed his changeup with a fastball still touching the mid-90s deep into his season-high 121-pitch afternoon. Jonathan India hit his 21st home run to break the game open in the sixth inning.
UNDATED (AP) — Joe Bugel and Emmitt Thomas are winners of the 2018 Paul “Dr. Z” Zimmerman Award given by the Professional Football Writers of America for work as an NFL assistant coach. Bugel is best known for building Washington’s famous Hogs offensive line unit as the Redskins won three Super Bowls. Chiefs defensive backs coach Thomas made the Pro Football Hall of Famer as a player and is in his 38th season as an NFL assistant coach.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Texas Rangers have optioned rookie left-hander Yohander Mendez back to Triple-A Round Rock for violating team rules. Mendez was supposed to start Wednesday’s series finale against Kansas City. But right-hander Austin Bibens-Dirkx will get the ball instead. General manager Jon Daniels says at least one other player was involved, but his discipline will be handled in-house. He says the incident is “not criminal, nothing involving MLB or the police.”
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a 9-year-old boy who was found underwater Sunday at a central Iowa lake has died. The Des Moines Register reports that Landyn Short, of Tama, died Tuesday at a Des Moines Hospital. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says the boy was reported missing in the water at Rock Creek State Park, near Grinnell, around 1:30 p.m. Sunday and found underwater about 45 minutes later.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With recent heavy rains and more on the way, the National Weather Service says there is a potential for more serious flooding in the southern half of Iowa by week’s end. While only some scattered thunderstorms are expected across the state for much of Tuesday, more widespread storms and heavy rain are expected Tuesday night into Wednesday, with some spots possibly getting up to 4 inches.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Environmental activists are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ authority to manage a program designed to limit water pollution. About 30 members of the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement held a rally Tuesday at the state Capitol. They distributed a letter to the EPA where they alleged the DNR hasn’t done enough to adequately regulate massive hog farms.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state housing agency that’s been reviewing its decision to lease new office space is moving ahead with the relocation plans. The Iowa Finance Authority says its board of directors agreed Tuesday to reaffirm the move after receiving a new external review of expected costs. The agency says the review shows the move would be the most cost-effective option in year ten when compared to choices like staying in the current location.
In light of recent public outbursts during the Atlantic City Council meeting, and subsequent verbal sparring with the Mayor and Councilpersons, the Atlantic City Council, Wednesday evening, will review a Resolution pertaining to Public Forum Procedures. City Administrator John Lund says the Council passed a Resolution in Feb., 2002, which set the rules of procedure at Council meetings. The first rule states “THe Mayor shall preserve order and decorum and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Council.” Lund says the Council may choose to amend the current resolution, but until any changes are adopted, the Mayor is still entrusted to execute the Resolution.
Lund says the Municipal Research and Services Center (MRSC), a non-profit organization that helps local governments better serve their citizens by providing legal and policy guidance on any topic, says “Limiting public comment time in a council meeting is not a violation of the 1st Amendment, as some have claimed. Meetings must be public, according to Iowa Code, which also outlines specific instances where a governmental body may enter into a closed session. The law does allow the public the right to attend those meetings, but does not require those bodies to allow a public forum. Most cities, however, allow audiences to speak at meetings, even though it not required (except in the case of published Public Hearings).
In other business, the Atlantic City Council will discuss and consider a possible Business Grant Program in the form of a CDBG, or Community Development Block Grant, specifically for downtown facade restoration. The City already has an Economic Development Revolving (EDR) loan fund for Atlantic businesses. And, the City contributes between $30- and $43,000 to non-profit entities, according to Lund, that are considered to be charitable. That doesn’t include contributions to their economic development partners SWIPCO, CADCO and the Atlantic Chamber.
The Council will act on an order closing certain streets for the American Legion Post #43’s “Welcome Home” event this Sunday, from 10-a.m. until 3-p.m. The event is designed to honor members of Company K, 168th Infantry Battalion, who served in World War II. Those soldiers did not receive a homecoming event upon their return from the War. The members of that unit all passed on, but the ceremony is fitting, according to City officials, in light of Atlantic’s Sesquicentennial observations.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Joni Ernst has harsh words for President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods. The Republican senator from Iowa, in a significant parting of ways with Trump, says the tariffs “are nothing more than a tax on Iowa farm families.”
In a statement released Tuesday Ernst said the “escalating trade war is putting the livelihoods of our rural communities in the crosshairs.” She says she supports Trump’s effort to equalize a trade imbalance but the United States should focus on access to new markets and completing new trade deals rather than imposing dangerous tariffs.
Trump says he’ll impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion in goods from China in addition to tariffs announced earlier, which Ernst says puts U.S. producers at risk of permanently losing valuable market access.
THOR, Iowa (AP) — A prairie and wetland in northern Iowa are flourishing a few years after two farming brothers donated the land following their deaths. Palmer Larson, 86, and his brother, Roger Larson, 82, both died in 2012. The brothers donated 150 acres (61 hectares) of their land in Humboldt County to the state, which was turned into the Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area, the Des Moines Register reported .
Bryan Hellyer is a wildlife supervisor with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. He said the brothers weren’t openly conservationists, but arranged a meeting with him in 2001. He said they spoke about the goals of the agency, but that he didn’t hear about the donation until after their deaths.
“I nearly fell over,” Hellyer said. “I thought, ‘no way.’ As far as farmland, there is not much better, so this is not the typical type of land the DNR manages.” Farmers in the area were also surprised by the donation.
Hellyer and wildlife technician Rob Patterson have spent five years restoring the land to its native condition. Two portions of the land were seeded with native prairie plants. Patterson has used more than 100 species of grasses and wildflowers.
The remaining 30 acres has food plots for wildlife and a small patch of timber. The area also includes a 33-mile trail. The brothers gave eight other nonprofit agencies their gross estate of $2.6 million, including the Iowa Department of the Blind, the Iowa Radio Reading Information Service and the Humboldt County Historical Museum.
POLK CITY, Iowa (AP) — A toddler pulled from a central Iowa lake over the weekend has died. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says the 2-year-old girl died Tuesday morning at a Des Moines hospital.
The girl was with her family Saturday at Big Creek State Park, just north of Des Moines, when was pulled from Big Creek Lake just before 9 p.m. First responders performed CPR on the girl, who was flown by helicopter to the hospital.
Officials have not released the girl’s name. An investigation into her death continues.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Environmental activists are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ authority to manage a program designed to limit water pollution.
About 30 members of the group Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement held a state Capitol rally Tuesday. They distributed a letter to the EPA alleging the DNR hasn’t done enough to regulate large hog farms, which can pollute water. The group is asking federal officials to manage water pollution regulations.
The DNR accepted a five-year work plan with the EPA in 2013 to bring its oversight of a pollutant discharge program into compliance with federal regulations. A department spokesman says the DNR is “sufficiently following” the plan.
The EPA will decide on any further action following a final DNR report in August.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With recent heavy rains and more on the way, the National Weather Service says there is a potential for serious flooding in the southern half of Iowa by week’s end. While only some scattered thunderstorms are expected across the state for much of Tuesday, more widespread storms and heavy rain are expected Tuesday night into Wednesday, with some spots possibly getting up to 4 inches.
Rain and storms are expected through Friday over much of Iowa. Consecutive days of rain will likely lead to river flooding in the southern half of Iowa — particularly around the Des Moines and Cedar rivers, National Weather Service meteorologist Allan Curtis said Tuesday. But Curtis says it would take much more rain to see the type of devastating flooding as in 2008.
Heavy rain in central Iowa this week has already prompted flood warnings for the Raccoon River. Nearly 2 inches fell in the Perry area on Monday, causing road and field flooding. The river was more than 2 feet below flood stage Tuesday morning, but was expected to rise above flood stage Wednesday morning and crest nearly 2 feet above flood stage by Thursday evening.
The service says a flood warning also is continuing until Friday for the Wapsipinicon River near DeWitt in eastern Iowa. Moderate flooding already is occurring at less than a foot above flood stage and could imperil residences between Calamus and Wheatland if the water were to reach a foot above flood stage.
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