Atlantic (KJAN) .39″

Massena .78″

Creston 2.3″

(Area) – “It was a dark and stormy night” lived up to an often quoted phrase from an 1830’s novel, Saturday night, across western Iowa. The National Weather Service reports hail ranging from as small as pea- to as large as baseball ball size, fell across the area. Storms also brought winds of up to 70 miles per hour. The evening began at around 5:30-p.m. with a severe thunderstorm watch issued for the far west and southwest counties. The warnings began to pop-up about two-hours later, including a tornado warning that was issued for southeast Montgomery and NE Page Counties. A possible tornado was indicated by radar, but there were no confirmed sightings.

The largest hail in southwest Iowa fell in Pottawattamie County, where baseball size hail (2.75 in diameter) was observed in Carson. Elsewhere, tennis ball size hail was reported to have occurred in Stanton, while golf ball size hail fell south of Stanton and in Griswold. Most of the hail reports from around the area, were quarter-sized, with some dime-size rocks of ice falling in Corning.

As of early Sunday morning, there were no reports of damage. That’s likely to change though, as sunlight brings a fresh perspective on the storm’s aftermath. If you have any storm damage and/or pictures you would like to submit, send them to kjannews@metc.net.  Please include (when possible) a time frame for the damage, along with the location and your name. Thank you!

Check out the latest Storm Reports listing of hail/wind events on the Weather page (Under Community Hub) at kjan.com.

Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with a low around 58. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 85. East northeast wind 5 to 11 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 93. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 71.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 77. Our Low this morning was 60. We received .39″ of rain since 7-a.m. Saturday. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 88 and the Low was 54. The Record High of 99 was set in 1893. The Record Low of 26 was set in 1901. Sunrise is at 7:03-a.m. Sunset will be at 7:25-p.m.

10:45-p.m.    3/4″ hail in Corning (Note: 1″=Quarter-size; 1.5″=Ping Pong ball-size hail; 1.75″= golf ball-size hail)

10:22-p.m.    1″ hail in Grant (Montgomery Co.)

9:51-p.m.     1 ” hail, 4 miles east of Creston

9:31-p.m.     1″ hail 3 miles SE of Cromwell (Union County)

9:22-p.m.     1″ diameter hail 3 miles s. of Oakland

9:19-p.m.    2.75″ diameter hail (baseball size) observed in Carson

9:10-p.m.    70 mph wind gust 5 miles w. of Hancock & pea size hail

9:00-p.m.    1″ hail mixed with dime size hail reported in Lenox

8:58-p.m.    1.75″ diameter (golf ball size) hail reported in Griswold

7:43-p.m.     1.75″ diameter hail reported 3 miles S. of Stanton (EMA)

7:30-p.m.     1″ diameter hail reported 3 miles southeast of Red Oak (Social media photo posts)

7:25-p.m.    2.5″ diameter (Tennis ball size) hail reported in Stanton

7:10-p.m.     1.75″ diameter hail 5 miles NE of Council Bluffs (Social media photo posts)

Skyscan Forecast  Saturday, September 17, 2022  Austin Romer

Today: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and t’storms. Warmer. S @ 20. High 81.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and t’storms. SE @ 10. Low 64.

Sunday: Partly cloudy. E @ 10. High 84.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear. ENE @ 5-10. Low 60.

Monday: Sunny. SE @ 10. High 87.

Tuesday: Sunny. S @ 15. High 96.

Yesterday’s high was 79 and the low was 65. This day last year the high was 77 and the low 50. The all-time record high was 97 in 1925. The record low was 31 in 1980. Sunrise tonight is 7:01 a.m. Sunset tonight is 7:21 p.m.

• KJAN, Atlantic  .03″
• Elk Horn  .06″
• Audubon  .11″
• Oakland  .12″
• Manning  .13″
• Clarinda  .12″
• Corning  .4″

Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered morning showers & thunderstorms. High 85. S @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. Low 67. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. High 85. S 10-15.
Sunday: A chance of shwrs & tstrms in the morning then partly cloudy. High 87.
Monday: P/Cldy. High around 90.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 84. Our Low this morning, 63. We received .03″ rain overnight at KJAN. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 90 and the Low was 61. The Record High on this date was 95 in 1931. The Record Low was 28 in 1893.

(Radio Iowa) – Prolonged drought across the region has pushed the U-S Army Corps of Engineers to lower Missouri River levels from Nebraska City to Kansas City by a full foot. The lower levels will affect boat traffic and could impact municipal water supplies and other utilities that rely on the river. Missouri River Basin Water Management Director John Remus (REE-mus) says conditions have been getting worse since the drought first began to emerge in July of 2020. “In March, about 70% of the upper basin was experiencing some level of drought and about 20% of it was severe drought, very, very dry,” Remus says. “We have had some good rains throughout the year up there, but the conditions have improved, but not enough to really help the runoff.”

Remus says lower water levels will have an impact on navigation this fall.  “Of course, that means more trips or more barges to get the same amount of product up and down the river,” Remus says. Navigation continues on the Missouri, though barges will have to lighten their loads to float on the river. The navigation season will end on November 28th, which is three days early. Remus says even prolonged, heavy rains likely wouldn’t make up the difference in low soil moisture levels, as they’ve been so low for so long. “The wild card is really snowpack next year,” he says. “We had next-to-nothing for plains snowpack in 2022, and we had a below-average mountain snowpack. So unless we get better snowpack in the northern part of the basin, we’re probably going to be facing what we’ve seen this year again next year.”

Flows into the Missouri River have been reduced to cope with a much lower flood control pool in the six upstream reservoirs.

Today: Mostly Sunny. High 88. S @ 15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Low 66. S @ 15.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy. High 85. S 10-20.
Friday: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/a chance of rain late. High 85. S @ 15 mph.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/a chance of rain. High 93. S @ 10-20.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 84. The Low was 44. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 79 and the Low was 47. The Record High on this date was 99 in 1939. The Record Low was 29 in 1892.