715 AM CDT SAT JUN 29 2013

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE NOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTH WIND 10 TO 25 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING. LOW IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH THROUGH MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.

SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 70S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE MID 50S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

MONDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE MID 50S.

TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S. LOW IN THE UPPER 50S.

WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S.

Today: Sunny. High 85.  Gusty winds out of the NW @ 10-20 with gusts up to 30.

Tonight: Clear.  Low 62. NW @ 10-15.

Saturday: Partly Cloudy. Scattered showers, thunderstorms possible in the afternoon. High 78. N @ 15.

Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy. Low in the upper 50’s.

Sunday: Partly Cloudy. High 75. NE @ 10.

Monday: Partly Cloudy.  High upper 70’s.

Tuesday: Partly Cloudy. High upper 70’s.

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Today: Scattered Showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy with a High of 88. Calm winds becoming 5-10mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy with a Low of 65. Winds NW at 10-15.

Friday: Sunny with a High of 85. Winds NW at 10.

Friday Night: Clear. Low 62. Winds NW at 10-15

Saturday: Partly cloudy to cloudy.  Scattered showers possible.  High 78. Winds NNW at 10-15

Sunday: Partly sunny.  Slight chance of a shower. High 77.

Monday: Sunny. H 78.

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Today: Scattered Showers early then Partly Sunny with a high near 90.  Breezy with a south wind at 10-15mph with gusts as high as 25.

Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 9pm and 1am. Partly cloudy with a low around 70.  South winds at 5-15.

Wednesday: Sunny with a high near 89.  West northwest winds at 10-15 with gusts as high as 20.

Thursday: Mostly sunny with a high near 88.  Northwest winds at 5-10.

Friday: Sunny with a high of 86.

Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high in the low 80’s.

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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA, NE HAS ISSUED A
* FLOOD ADVISORY FOR
  THE EAST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT RED OAK.
* UNTIL TUESDAY EVENING.
* AT  815 PM MONDAY THE STAGE WAS 17.2 FEET.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 18.0 FEET.
* FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL RISE TO NEAR 17.9 FEET EARLY TUESDAY
  MORNING.
* IMPACT...AT 18.0 FEET...RURAL LOWLANDS BEGIN TO FLOOD ALONG THE
  EAST BANK.

Heavy rains, flooding and high winds caused a bit of damage Monday morning.  Storms packing winds of up to 70 miles per hour were reported in a number of locations.  The heavy rains have caused some low-lying areas that were already threatened by recent rains to swell as creeks and streams couldn’t hold the added water.  Flooding at the Atlantic little league complex caused a problem for those who park their cars in the lot and commute to the Menard’s Shipping Warehouse at Shelby.  You can see in the picture that people are trying to get to some of the cars in waist-deep water to move them out of harms way.  High winds were reported in several locations….58 mph at the Atlantic airport, 60 mph in Audubon and 75 mph in Harlan.  The winds caused considerable tree damage.  There was a report of a barn blown over north of Atlantic and a semi blown on its side on Highway 141 in Greene county.

FLASH FLOOD WARNING until 8-a.m.: NE Cass, SE Audubon & SW Guthrie Counties.

FLASH FLOOD WATCH until 4-p.m. for Cass, Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Crawford,Dallas, Guthrie & Madison Counties.

Monday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. Breezy, with a south wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Monday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 71. South wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 102. Windy, with a south wind 14 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. Breezy, with a south wind 6 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 91. Breezy.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 71.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 90.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 69.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 87.

AREA COUNTIES: CRAWFORD-CARROLL-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-
 DALLAS-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-
 341 AM CDT MON JUN 24 2013
 
 …FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH 4-p.m…..
 
 * THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA…MAINLY BETWEEN
   INTERSTATE 80 AND HIGHWAY 20…EARLY THIS MORNING. A SECOND
   ROUND OF STORMS WILL ORIENTED MORE NORTH TO SOUTH LATER THIS
   MORNING AND AFTERNOON BUT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SAME GENERAL
   AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY WITH
   THESE STORMS.
 
 * RAINFALL RATES OF 2 OR MORE INCHES AN HOUR MAY CAUSE FLASH
   FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR
   URBAN FLOODING.
 
 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.

201 AM CDT MON JUN 24 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR…

NORTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA…SOUTHERN AUDUBON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA…SOUTHWESTERN GUTHRIE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA…UNTIL 800 AM CDT

* AT 159 AM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS LIKELY FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT…AND ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL NORTH OF ADAIR AND EAST OF EXIRA BY 4 AM.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN CASS…SOUTHERN AUDUBON AND SOUTHWESTERN GUTHRIE COUNTIES…INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF ANITA…BRAYTON…EXIRA AND KIMBALLTON. THE WARNING INCLUDES A LARGE STRETCH OF I-80.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS…COUNTRY ROADS…AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT ENTER THE WATER. TURN AROUND AND MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED…
 
 THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA…NORTH
 CENTRAL IOWA…NORTHEAST IOWA…NORTHWEST IOWA AND WEST CENTRAL
 IOWA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVE THROUGH EARLIER
 TODAY HAVE PUSHED A FRONTAL BOUNDARY SOUTH OF THE STATE.
 THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO FORM ALONG THIS BOUNDARY AND SPREAD
 NORTH TONIGHT…HOWEVER THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS LIKELY TO REMAIN
 SOUTH OF IOWA TONIGHT.