AREA COUNTIES: AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-CASS-ADAIR- MADISON-ADAMS-UNION-TAYLOR-
1:08 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED…
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA…NORTH
CENTRAL IOWA…SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…SOUTHWEST IOWA AND WEST
CENTRAL IOWA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADDITIONAL LIGHT SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSBILE ACROSS THE AREA…HOWEVER THE THREAT OF
HEAVY RAINFALL LEADING TO FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED.
IOWA COUNTIES: SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-
1:02- PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED…
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA AND
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HEAVY RAIN IS NO LONGER
EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHWEST IOWA AND MUCH OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
THIS AFTERNOON.
WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY
EVENING. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINFALL…LARGE HAIL…DAMAGING
WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. THE TORNADO THREAT WILL
BE MAINLY OVER SOUTHEASTERN IOWA ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE
80 AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THROUGH TODAY
SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-CASS-OTOE-GAGE-
JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON-
1154 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA
AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.
.DAY ONE…THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES INTO THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.
WITH INCREASING SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON…INSTABILITY WILL
CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA. A PIECE OF UPPER LEVEL
ENERGY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON
AND PROVIDE THE DYNAMICS NEEDED TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS…A FEW
OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE.
…FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING…
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL RESULT IN POTENTIAL FLASH FLOODING.
* SEVERAL RIVERS AND STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA ARE ALREADY ABOVE OR NEAR FLOOD STAGE AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL COMPOUND FLOODING PROBLEMS.
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.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa crime victims can keep tabs on jail and prison inmates using a new mobile app. The state Attorney General’s office says Thursday the free VINEMobile app will allow crime victims and the public to anonymously monitor inmates in Iowa correctional facilities and most county jails. They can also sign up for notifications when inmates’ custody status changes due to transfer or release.
Attorney General Tom Miller says in a statement that this tool will help crime victims because they can more easily get information about criminals. The app was developed by Appriss Inc. and is available for Android and Apple devices. It is a mobile version of IowaVINE, a victim notification service.
RUTH E. STEFFENS, 86, of Atlantic , died Thu., May 30th, at the Atlantic Nursing & Rehab Center. Funeral services for RUTH STEFFENS will be held 2:30-p.m. Sat., June 1st, at the Roland Funeral Service in Atlantic.
Visitation at the funeral home is from 5-to 7-pm Friday (May 31st). Condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
Burial will be in the 1st Lutheran Cemetery, south of Wiota.
RUTH STEFFENS is survived by:
Her daughter – Joyce Anderson, of Omaha.
Her sons – Gary Steffens, of Wiota; Bruce Steffens, of Griswold, & Jimmie Steffens, of Mallard.
Her brother – Jimmie Snyder, of Council Bluffs.
10 grandchildren & 14 great-grandchildren.
FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1101 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2013
…THE FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER…
WEST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT RANDOLPH AFFECTING FREMONT COUNTY.
EAST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AT RED OAK AFFECTING MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Iowa’s secretary of agriculture says some Iowa farmers face tough decisions because of the wet weather. Secretary Bill Northey says some farmers may have to shift to seeding soybeans in fields they had planned to plant with corn this year. “We still have 15 percent of the corn to be planted out there for the first time and, really, almost none of that’s going to get planted ’til June. I’m sure some of it may not even get planted just because some rivers are out of their banks. In other places it’s going to be hard to get planted,” We have 60 percent of the soybeans yet to be planted and normally that should be close to being done or at least within sight of being done and now we’re hardly within sight of getting that in the ground.”
In addition, farmers may have to replant fields that have been underwater for a while. “Way back in 1993 we had issues where the crop actually, essentially drowned out just in really soggy soil. Normally that doesn’t happen inIowa. We get some dry weather between our rains and the crop may struggle through some saturated soils, but it grows,” Northey says. “We’re at a point where we have to worry a little bit about making sure that soil dries out between these rains so that bean plant and that corn plant can stay healthy and keep growing.”
Farmers are looking for warm, windy days in the forecast. Northeys says “We don’t need 40 mile an hour winds, but we certainly could use 15-20 mile an hour breezes on those warm days to be able to get some of that drying done.” Seed treatments can help young plants survive wet conditions. Northey says June 10th is a sort of cut-off date for planting corn in Iowa and farmers can plant soybeans as late as the first week of July, but the shortened growing season means a shorter crop. Northey farms near Spirit Lake and he still has some planting to do in his fields.
According to the Iowa Farm Bureau, planting progress is slower than it was in the dramatic flood year of 1993.
(Radio Iowa)
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