601 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR…
RINGGOLD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…
CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…
UNION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT WEDNESDAY

* AT 553 AM CDT…LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLOODING IN MANY
RURAL LOCATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTIES… WITH EITHER ROADS DAMAGED
OR ONGOING FLOODING OR SOME BLOCKED ROADS. BOTH CLARKE AND
RINGGOLD COUNTIES REPORT ROAD WASHOUTS…BRIDGES DAMAGED AND
GRAVEL ROADS DAMAGED. IN CLARKE COUNTY…THE EAST LONG CREEK AND
SEVEN MILE CREEK WERE OUT OF THEIR BANKS EARLY THIS MORNING.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN LAST NIGHT
WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.

* PERSONS TRAVELING SHOULD BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS EARLY THIS MORNING AND
TODAY AND AVOID ANY FLOODED AREAS…NEVER DRIVE INTO WATER OF ANY
DEPTH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE…
OSCEOLA…MOUNT AYR…LAKESIDE CASINO…SUN VALLEY LAKE…AFTON…
MURRAY…LORIMOR…DIAGONAL…KELLERTON…WOODBURN…TINGLEY…
ARISPE…REDDING…SHANNON CITY…THAYER…ELLSTON…BENTON…
MALOY…DELPHOS AND BEACONSFIELD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR HAS BEEN
REPORTED. ALL INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS
IMMEDIATELY.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS…AS WELL AS FARM AND COUNTRY ROADS. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES.

TO REPORT FLOODING…HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER IN IOWA… NISHNABOTNA RIVER NEAR HAMBURG AFFECTING FREMONT COUNTY. …FORECAST FLOODING CHANGED FROM MINOR TO MODERATE SEVERITY FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER IN IOWA… WEST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT HANCOCK AFFECTING POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY. …FORECAST FLOODING CHANGED FROM MINOR TO MODERATE SEVERITY FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER IN IOWA… WEST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT RANDOLPH AFFECTING FREMONT COUNTY. …FORECAST FLOODING CHANGED FROM MINOR TO MODERATE SEVERITY FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER IN IOWA… EAST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT RED OAK AFFECTING MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT DRIVE CARS THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR VEHICLE TO PASS SAFELY. TURN AROUND…DON`T DROWN!

THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR  THE EAST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT RED OAK FROM THIS MORNING TO FRIDAY AFTERNOON…OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELLED.

FLOOD WARNING FOR THE NISHNABOTNA RIVER NEAR HAMBURG FROM THIS EVENING TO SATURDAY EVENING…OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS  CANCELLED.

THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE WEST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT RANDOLPH FROM THIS MORNING TO FRIDAY MORNING…OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS  CANCELLED.

The Freese-Notis forecast and weather information (including precip/HI-LO temps) for Atlantic.

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430 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2014

EARLY THIS MORNING…CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. WEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 50 PERCENT.
TODAY…CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SHOWERS THROUGH MID MORNING…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT SHOWERS BEFORE NOON. BREEZY…COOLER. HIGH IN THE MID 60S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 30 PERCENT.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. COOLER. LOW IN THE MID 40S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH AROUND 60. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SHOWERS LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE MID 40S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 60 PERCENT.

FRIDAY…RAIN LIKELY IN THE MORNING…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN 60 PERCENT.
FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 30S.

SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S.

348 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS IN…
MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT WEDNESDAY

* AT 342 AM CDT…LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLOODING MAY STILL
BE ONGOING AT SEVERAL URBAN AND RURAL AREAS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
EARLIER IN THE NIGHT PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 92 NEAR BEVINGTON AND A
ROAD SOUTH OF TRURO WAS FLOODED. ALONG WITH THAT PAMEL PARK AND
THE 2400 BLOCK OF CARVER ROAD IN WINTERSET WAS FLOODED. CUMMING
ROAD WAS ALSO FLOODED EARLIER IN THE NIGHT. ROADS MAY STILL BE
IMPACTED OR DIFFICULT TO TRAVEL ON DUE TO HEAVY OVERNIGHT RAINS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

438 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2014

…THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER…NODAWAY RIVER AT CLARINDA AFFECTING PAGE COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

DO NOT DRIVE CARS THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE
WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR VEHICLE TO PASS SAFELY.

THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR
THE NODAWAY RIVER AT CLARINDA.
* UNTIL THURSDAY MORNING…OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELLED.
* AT 4:15 AM WEDNESDAY THE STAGE WAS 22.8 FEET…OR 0.2 FEET BELOW
FLOOD STAGE.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 23.0 FEET.
* MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FORECAST…RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AND CONTINUE TO RISE
TO NEAR 24.0 FEET BY THIS MORNING.THE RIVER WILL FALL BELOW FLOOD
STAGE BY THIS AFTERNOON.
* IMPACT…AT 24.0 FEET…ADDITIONAL LOWLANDS, SOME FARMLANDS, AND
COUNTY ROADS FLOOD.

CASS IA-MADISON IA-ADAIR IA-UNION IA-ADAMS IA-
351 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2014

…THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CASS…MADISON…ADAIR…NORTHERN UNION AND ADAMS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED…

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED…AND FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT.

AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MADISON COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM CDT THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS AREAL FLOOD WARNING REPLACES THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT. ROADS IN MADISON COUNTY MAY STILL BE IMPACTED OR PERHAPS DAMAGED BY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING FROM THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

Rainfall in Atlantic, at the KJAN studios through 3:40-a.m. today (9/9/14), amounted to 3.12″ since the rain began to fall at around 12:30-p.m., Tuesday. Elsewhere in town, a resident near 7th & Birch reported 7.10″ over the past 24-hours, while 3.8″ was reported at a business on Chestnut Street.

Other reported rain totals include (as of early this morning):

4.2″ in Massena (Ardell McCunn); 4.4″ in Villisca;2.5″ 3 miles west of Oakland; 6.10″ in Afton (Union County); 4.25″ in Adair & Greenfield;  3.30″ 3 miles w. of Pacific Junction;  3+” of rain e. of Winterset; 3.34″ at Earlham; 2.1″ just south of Guthrie Center; 2″ in Corning; 2.20″ 3 miles s. of Creston; 2.02″ in Shenandoah; 3.30″ near Hamburg; 2.25″ in Emerson.

Other events:

9-p.m. Tues. – Numerous tree limbs down in and near Griswold, some blocking roads. Unspecified damage reported by Cass Co. Sheriff’s Deputy at or near the Conklin Fish Farm.

2″ diameter hail (slightly large than golf-ball size) 5-mile e/se of Corning at around 4:40-p.m. Tues.

2″ dia. hail in Lenox reported at 5:05-p.m. Tues.

1.75″ (Golf ball size) hail reported 7-miles s/se of Prescott, in Adams Co., at around 5:10-p.m. Tues.

1″ hail reported 2 miles s. of Lenox at around 5:20-p.m. Tues.

7:47-p.m. water reported over some secondary roads in Union County, near Kent.

CASS IA-ADAIR IA-

834 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 2014

…STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY…

AT 832 PM CDT…TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRISWOLD…OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF ATLANTIC…MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE… GRISWOLD…LEWIS…MASSENA…CUMBERLAND…BRIDGEWATER…GRISWOLD PARK AND COLD SPRINGS STATE PARK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM…AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

801 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 2014

…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY…

TONIGHT…WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL EARLY MORNING…THEN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE NIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. LOW IN THE MID 60S. EAST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR 100 PERCENT.

WEDNESDAY…CLOUDY…BREEZY…COOLER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS BEFORE NOON. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE MID 60S. NORTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. COOLER. LOW IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.