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Here’s the (podcast) Skyscan Forecast for the KJAN listening area, and the weather stats for Atlantic…
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Severe storms that popped-up in southeastern Nebraska Thursday evening didn’t take long to affect the atmosphere in southwest Iowa. Storm warnings for parts of the listening area were issued at around 6:40-p.m. Motorists began pulling under bridge overpasses along Interstate 29 near Council Bluffs, as the area was hit by heavy rain and hail. At about that same time, the National Weather Service in Valley, NE, issued a Tornado Watch for four counties in the southwest corner of the state.
Storms continued to build and move eastward, until they began to form and move northeast into Cass County just after 7-p.m. At around 7:25-p.m., a Severe Thunderstorm warning was issued for parts of Cass and Audubon Counties. The storms moved through Griswold and Atlantic, dumping heavy rain. Here at the KJAN studios, we received a total of .88″ of an inch of rain, with most of that having fallen between 7-and 9-pm.
Pea-sized hail was observed just a few miles south and northeast of Atlantic as the storms passed through, but further off to the southwest, near Griswold, quarter-sized hail was reported at 8:10-p.m. by a trained weather service spotter. About 15-minutes earlier, another spotter reported golf ball-sized hail reported 4-miles northeast of Griswold .
Other reports of hail included quarter-sized hail one-mile north of Braddyville in Page County at around 8:40-p.m. There were no immediate reports of damage. Just when it appeared the storms had died down near 9-p.m. and were moving out of the listening area, the National Weather Service issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for those counties mainly south of Interstate 80 until 2-a.m., but most of the storms weakened significantly prior to the watch having expired.
335 AM CDT FRI MAR 30 2012
EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. PATCHY FOG. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE MORNING THEN BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.
SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. WARMER. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. BREEZY. LOW IN THE UPPER 50S. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE LOWER 60S.
MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. COOLER. HIGH AROUND 70.
MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. COOLER. LOW IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S.
Rainfall in Atlantic= .8” Some reports of pea-sized hail south and northeast of Atlantic as the storms passed through. Quarter-sized hail reported 3 miles south of Griswold at 8:10-p.m.*; Golf ball-sized hail reported 4-miles NE of Griswold at 7:54-p.m.*; quarter-sized hail reported 1-mile north of Braddyville in Page County at 8:42-p.m.*. (* indicates report from trained National Weather Service Spotter)
Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until 2-a.m. for Cass, Adair, Adams, Madison, Union, Taylor and Ringgold Counties in SW IA.
725 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN AUDUBON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA... NORTHWESTERN CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 724 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ATLANTIC...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WIOTA...BRAYTON...ANITA AND EXIRA. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 50 AND 73. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...GET OUT NOW...AND SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING CONTINUOUSLY WITH THIS STORM. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES.
CASS-
INCLUDING THE CITY OF…ATLANTIC
720 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012
…STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE AREA…
AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN CASS COUNTY
AND SOUTHWEST OF THE AREA. THE STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO
PENNY SIZED HAIL ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
POTTAWATTAMIE IA-MILLS IA-CASS NE-SARPY NE- 710 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL POTTAWATTAMIE...MILLS...EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CASS AND EXTREME NORTHEASTERN SARPY COUNTIES... AT 703 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS NEAR GLENWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GLENWOOD...MALVERN...TREYNOR...PACIFIC JUNCTION...SILVER CITY AND HASTINGS.
WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 115 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 634 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 IAC071-129-137-145-300400- /O.EXA.KOAX.TO.A.0115.000000T0000Z-120330T0400Z/ THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED TORNADO WATCH 115 TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AREAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING IN IOWA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST IOWA FREMONT MILLS MONTGOMERY PAGE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CLARINDA...FARRAGUT...GLENWOOD... HAMBURG...RED OAK...SHENANDOAH...SIDNEY AND TABOR.
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA 641 PM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY IN EASTERN NEBRASKA... MILLS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN IOWA... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN IOWA... EAST CENTRAL SARPY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 639 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OFFUTT AFB...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OMAHA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BELLEVUE...OFFUTT AFB...PLATTSMOUTH...GLENWOOD...MALVERN... TREYNOR...PACIFIC JUNCTION... SILVER CITY AND HASTINGS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA.
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