Today: Mostly cloudy w/a slight chance of showers this afternoon. High near 82. E/SE winds 5-15 mph w/gusts to near 20.
Tonight: A 70% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Low around 66.
Tomorrow: Mo. cloudy & breezy w/a 70% chance of showers & possible thunderstorms. High near 83. S @ 15-30 mph.
Tom. Night: A 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Low around 67.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 81.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 77.
Monday: Cloudy & breezy, w/a 50% of showers & thunderstorms. High near 80.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 88. Our Low this morning was 61. This day last year in Atlantic the high was 86 and the low 55. The Record High in Atlantic on June 27th, was 103 in 1934. The Record Low was 43, in 1938, 1958 & 1968. Sunrise today: 5:48 am. Sunset: 8:58 pm.
(Radio Iowa) – More severe weather stormed across Iowa on Tuesday night, bringing high winds, heavy rain and large hail. National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Lee says there were perhaps 30 sightings of funnel clouds statewide and a few of them touched down to become tornadoes. “Preliminarily, we think there may have been three, and they were pretty weak funnels that just briefly touched down and didn’t really produce any damage,” Lee says, “so it’s kind of hard to tell how many there were because most of them didn’t really damage anything.”
Tornadoes were reported near Cumming, Van Meter, Lambs Grove, Patterson and Ely — with reports of funnel clouds stretching from Charter Oak in western Iowa all the way to the Cedar Rapids area in the east. Lee says the active nighttime weather pattern followed a very hot, humid day. “We had a lot of instability and a kind of boundary laying across roughly the I-80 corridor across the state,” Lee says. “It was able to spin up those little funnels but thankfully, most of them didn’t touch down and weren’t of any particular severity, so it was a spectacular sight but not one that did a lot of damage, thankfully.”
While there was no damage reported from tornadoes in this series of storms, Lee says there -was- damage from other elements. “The largest hail stone that we had reported fell near Winterset and that was about roughly baseball-sized,” Lee says. “We also had some strong winds, particularly out close to Omaha, that were measured wind gusts up around 90 miles an hour with some damage, so it was a night for severe weather across at least the southern half of the state.”
Storm damage Tuesday night (6/25) west of the Tri-Center High Schoo by about 2 miles or so. Winds gusted up to 60 mph. (Photos courtesy Zach Ploen)
The typical tornado season in Iowa runs April, May and June, and the state’s seen an above-average number of twisters this year. “It doesn’t really end in June. It just gradually tapers off,” Lee says. “We can get tornadoes in any month of the year and they’re most likely in May and June, but they still occur fairly regularly in the other summer months as well. We have a long way to go, particularly in an active year like this one.”
Prior to last night’s (Tuesday night’s) storms, the National Weather Service reported Iowa had 86 tornadoes so far this year, with 44 in April and 42 during May. The average in a year is about 50. In 2021, Iowa had a record 63 tornadoes in a single day — in December. That was during the state’s second derecho in as many years, and that December outbreak set another record for most EF-2 tornadoes in one day — at 21. Iowa’s worst-ever day for deadly tornadoes was May 15th of 1968, when the state saw five massive F-5 tornadoes that killed 18 people.
(Des Moines, IA & Omaha, NE) – The National Weather Service offices in Des Moines and Omaha have compiled reports on the storms that whipped through Nebraska and Iowa late Tuesday. The reports ranged from cold air-type funnel clouds that never reached the ground, to tornadoes on the ground, and hail ranging in size from ping-pong balls to tennis balls. Winds in excess of 65 miles per hour caused damage to trees, power lines and structures.
Here are some of the reports from the Des Moines NWS Office:
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0354 PM Funnel Cloud 1 SW Granger 41.75N 93.84W 06/25/2024 Dallas IA Public 0409 PM Funnel Cloud 2 E Perry 41.83N 94.06W 06/25/2024 Dallas IA Public 0631 PM Tornado 3 W Cumming 41.48N 93.81W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Emergency Mngr Location estimated. 0641 PM Funnel Cloud 3 WNW Cumming 41.50N 93.84W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Public 0643 PM Tornado 4 ESE Van Meter 41.50N 93.88W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Law Enforcement Brief tornado, dropping up and down near 105th Ave and Timberview. 0644 PM Funnel Cloud 5 WSW Cumming 41.45N 93.84W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Trained Spotter 0646 PM Funnel Cloud 6 N Patterson 41.44N 93.87W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Public Funnel cloud reported by General Public. 0650 PM Tornado 2 N Patterson 41.38N 93.88W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Trained Spotter Spotter reported brief touchdown north of Patterson. 0710 PM Funnel Cloud 2 NW Winterset 41.36N 94.05W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Trained Spotter Spotter reported funnel cloud about 25% down from the cloud base. 0728 PM Hail 4 NE Winterset 41.39N 93.96W 06/25/2024 E0.75 Inch Madison IA Public Submitted photo of penny sized hail northeast of Winterset along Cumming Road. 0730 PM Funnel Cloud 4 NNE Lorimor 41.19N 94.04W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Trained Spotter Funnel cloud along outflow boundary. Location estimated by radar. 0754 PM Hail Winterset 41.34N 94.02W 06/25/2024 M2.75 Inch Madison IA Broadcast Media 0755 PM Funnel Cloud 5 W Winterset 41.35N 94.11W 06/25/2024 Madison IA Trained Spotter 0756 PM Hail 5 S Earlham 41.42N 94.13W 06/25/2024 M2.50 Inch Madison IA Trained Spotter 0757 PM Hail Winterset 41.34N 94.02W 06/25/2024 M1.50 Inch Madison IA Emergency Mngr Ping pong hail in winterset. 0758 PM Hail 1 NE Winterset 41.34N 94.01W 06/25/2024 E1.75 Inch Madison IA Public Public reported golf ball sized hail on the northern edge of Winterset. 0800 PM Hail Winterset 41.34N 94.02W 06/25/2024 M1.50 Inch Madison IA Broadcast Media 0849 PM Funnel Cloud Charter Oak 42.07N 95.59W 06/25/2024 Crawford IA Emergency Mngr Funnel cloud near town. 0850 PM Tstm Wnd Gst 1 NNW Audubon 41.73N 94.94W 06/25/2024 M65 MPH Audubon IA Mesonet Measured by personal weather station. 0903 PM Hail Audubon 41.72N 94.93W 06/25/2024 M1.00 Inch Audubon IA Emergency Mngr 1000 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg Stuart 41.50N 94.32W 06/25/2024 Adair IA Emergency Mngr Storm siren pole knocked down and tree limb damage. 1017 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg 1 NE Adel 41.62N 94.02W 06/25/2024 Dallas IA Public Report from mPING: 1-inch tree limbs broken; Shingles blown off. 1020 PM Tstm Wnd Gst Lorimor 41.13N 94.05W 06/25/2024 M62 MPH Union IA Trained Spotter 62 mph recorded wind gust on handheld anemometer. Blinding rain sheets. 1044 PM Hail Kellerton 40.71N 94.05W 06/25/2024 E2.00 Inch Ringgold IA Trained Spotter Quarter to 2.25 inch diameter hail. Six minutes of hail. Small twigs broken off.
From the Omaha NWS Office:
1005 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg Oakland 41.31N 95.40W 06/25/2024 Pottawattamie IA Public 3 very large tree limbs blown down.Numerous other trees blown down. 1054 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg Clarinda 40.73N 95.03W 06/25/2024 Page IA Public Report from mPING: 3-inch tree limbs broken; Power poles broken.
1004 PM Tstm Wnd Gst 3 WNW Macedonia 41.21N 95.48W 06/25/2024 M63 MPH Pottawattamie IA Public From a personal weather station. 1002 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg 3 S Council Bluffs 41.20N 95.86W 06/25/2024 Pottawattamie IA Public Report from mPING: 3-inch tree limbs broken; Power poles broken.
0959 PM Tstm Wnd Gst 7 WNW Oakland 41.35N 95.53W 06/25/2024 M64 MPH Pottawattamie IA Public
0940 PM Tstm Wnd Gst 5 E Council Bluffs 41.24N 95.76W 06/25/2024 E62 MPH Pottawattamie IA Public From a personal weather station.
0946 PM Tstm Wnd Gst Mcclelland 41.33N 95.68W 06/25/2024 M59 MPH Pottawattamie IA Public From a personal weather station.
0805 PM Hail Harlan 41.65N 95.33W 06/25/2024 M1.75 Inch Shelby IA Public
0718 PM Hail Neola 41.45N 95.61W 06/25/2024 E2.50 Inch Pottawattamie IA Emergency Mngr Time estimated from radar.
0800 PM Hail Missouri Valley 41.56N 95.89W 06/25/2024 E1.50 Inch Harrison IA Law Enforcement 0814 PM Hail Harlan 41.65N 95.33W 06/25/2024 E1.50 Inch Shelby IA Public Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.).
0806 PM Tstm Wnd Gst 2 E Harlan 41.65N 95.28W 06/25/2024 M72 MPH Shelby IA Public A 72 mph wind gust was measured on a personal weather station 2 miles east of Harlan.
0803 PM Tstm Wnd Gst 1 NW Harlan 41.66N 95.34W 06/25/2024 M62 MPH Shelby IA Public A 62 mph wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station on the northwest side of Harlan.
Today: Partly sunny-to-sunny. High near 84. North northeast winds 10–to-20 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 59.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy w/a 40% chance of showers & thunderstorms. High near 78. E/SE winds at 10-20 becoming S/SE.
Tom. Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 64.
Friday: Showers & thunderstorms ending by around 7am. Becoming partly sunny & breezy. High near 88.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 94. Our Low this morning was 66. We received .06″ rain last night at KJAN. This day last year in Atlantic the high was 80 and the low 52. The Record High in Atlantic on June 26th, was 103 in 1934 & 1936. The Record Low was 43, in 1902. Sunrise this morning: 5:47 am. Sunset: 8:58 pm.
Today: Mostly sunny w/a 30% chance of afternoon showers & thunderstorms. High near 94. Heat index values as high as 103. HEAT ADVISORY in effect from Noon until 7-p.m. today. SW winds 5-10 this morning becoming SE this afternoon.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before midnight. Low around 65.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 84. N/NE winds 10-20 mph.
Wed. Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy w/a 40% chance of showers & thunderstorms. High near 78. .
Thu. Night: A 70% chance of showers & thunderstorms. Low around 65.
Friday: Showers and thunderstorms ending in the morning; Becoming partly sunny. High near 88.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 97, and the Low was 74. This day last year in Atlantic the high was 80 and the low 52. The record high in Atlantic on June 25th, was 106 in 1937, & the record Low was 40, in 2004. Sunrise this morning: 5:47 am. Sunset: 8:58 pm.
(Radio Iowa) – Forecasters say some areas of northwest Iowa that are already seeing record flooding may get more rain late today and tonight (Monday). Making a bad situation even worse, National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Lee says the summer heat will be oppressive for the next few days as a Heat Advisory is posted for much of Iowa’s western half from 1 o’clock this afternoon until 8 tonight. “The high temperatures will probably only be in about the lower 90s or so,” Lee says, “but when you factor in the humidity, the heat index will be approaching 100 degrees at times, both today and Tuesday.” Some areas will feel much hotter, he says, as the forecast heat index for Council Bluffs late today is 111-degrees.
A few weeks ago, Iowa emerged from a drought that had lasted nearly four years, though now it’s almost like the rain showers are trying to make up for lost time. “Unfortunately, who’d of thought a few months ago we’d be wanting the rain to stop when we were in drought, but we just can’t quite seem to get out of this active pattern,” Lee says. “We do have more thunderstorm chances forecast, higher chances will be from this evening through tonight and then again on Tuesday afternoon and evening and we may have some severe weather with those.” Parts of the flooded region got more than ten inches of rain in the past week, which is some eight times more than normal, but Lee is hoping the approaching storms won’t make the flooding worse.
“At this time, the threat of that is more limited. The heavy rains that we had a couple of days ago are from storms that were moving repeatedly over the same areas,” Lee says. “Most of the time from now through Tuesday when we’re expecting one or more rounds of thunderstorms, the storms look like they’ll be moving a little more quickly, so the rain could still come down heavily, but hopefully we can avoid any kind of totals like we saw a few days ago.”
Lee says cooler weather is forecast to arrive on Wednesday, though the chances for rain also reappear on Thursday and Friday.
The Flood Warning continues from 8-p.m. today (Monday) until 2-a.m. on July 1st, for the Missouri River, affecting the following counties in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri:
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Turn around, don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at water.noaa.gov.
Today: Sunny & breezy. High near 94. HEAT ADVISORY from 1-until 8-p.m. Heat index values as high as 102. South winds 10-20 mph w/gusts to near 30 this afternoon.
Tonight: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/a 30% chance of showers & thunderstorms. Low around 71.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny to sunny w/a 30% chance of afternoon showers & thunderstorms. High near 93. Heat index values as high as 100. SW winds around 10 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 83.
Thursday: P/Sunny w/a 40% chance of showers & possibly some thunderstorms. High near 79.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 88, and the Low 65. This day last year in Atlantic the high was 87 and the low 62. The record high in Atlantic on June 24th, was 105 in 1937, & the record Low was 41, in 1961. Sunrise this morning: 5:47 am. Sunset: 8:57 pm.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 87.West winds around 5 mph this afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear w/a just a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Low around 69.
Tomorrow: Sunny, hot & breezy. High near 93. Heat index of up to 105 degrees. HEAT ADVISORY in effect from 1-until 8-p.m. Monday. South winds 15-25 mph.
Tom. Night: Partly cloudy. Low 72. South wind 10-20 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny & breezy w/a 40% chance of afternoon showers & thunderstorms. High near 95. S/SW winds 10-20.
Tuesday Night: A 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Otherwise partly cloudy. Low 64.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 85.
Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 88, and our Low this morning was 63. This day last year in Atlantic the high was 91 and the low 62. The record high in Atlantic on June 23rd, was 105 in 1937, & the record Low was 44, in 1958. Sunrise this morning was at 5:46 am. Sunset this evening is at 8:57 pm.
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