Heavy rain fell in the central, southeast, and into the south central counties of the state. This caused some brief minor flooding along the South Skunk River in Oskaloosa, and also along the Chariton River in Chariton.
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The episode as NWS DMX wrote it up.
Heavy rain fell in the central, southeast, and into the south central counties of the state. This caused some brief minor flooding along the South Skunk River in Oskaloosa, and also along the Chariton River in Chariton. Little damage occurred with only a small amount of agricultural land flooded.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 4:55 AM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 555 AM CDT MON JUN 8 2009 .AVIATION DISCUSSION 08/12Z. .SFC LOW NOW JUST TO THE W OF KDSM AND MOVG NEWD. OCFNT XTDG EWD FM LO TO NR KDSM...THEN CDFNT SLIDES SSWD FROM THERE. WRMFNG XTNDS TO THE KDVN AREA. OCCUSION HAS LMTD THE TSRA DVLPMT AND FINAL ROUND IS LFGT NEWD ACRS THE SWA NOW. FEEL THE TIMING AND PCPN AREA OF THE GFS LOOKS GUD ON THIS. WILL PULL MOST OF PCPN OUT OF CWA BY 18Z. TEMPS WL BE COOL TDA WITH XTNSV LO CLDS BHND SFC LOW AND NLY FLOW OF COOL AIR FROM THE POOL TO THE N. RELATIVELY QUITE WX TNGT INTO TUE. NXT WX SYS TO AFFECT IA WL BE THE LOB ROTATING ARND THE VORTEX IN S CNTRL CAN. THAT IS SLATED TO AFFECT US TUE NGT IT WED NGT. THIS SYS IS MORE OF A COOL SEASON SYS AND IS NOT LKLY TO PRODUCE SVR WX OVR THE CWA THIS TIME ARND WITH IA BEING IN THE COOL SECTOR OF THE SYS. LWRD TEMPS FOR WED A FEW DEG BASED ON THE CLOUDS AND RAN IN THE AREA. MAXES LKLY TO BE AOB 70 MOST AREAS. NO OTR SIG CHNGS TO GOING FCST WITH ACTV WX THRU THE NGT. && .AVIATION...08/12Z MAIN SYSTEM PULLING OUT OF THE AREA BY 18Z WITH DEF ZONE PRECIP BEHIND IT AS IT MOVES EAST. STILL SOME -TSRA EAST SECTIONS EARLY AT KALO AND KOTM...OTHERWISE LOW IFR CIGS NW SECTIONS THROUGH THE LATE MORNING HOURS AND THEN SOME GRADUAL LIFTING OF CIGS AS THE STORM PULLS AWAY. LIGHT SHOWERS DEVELOPING BEHIND THE LOW IN RESPONSE TO DEF ZONE POST FRONTAL LIFT. WINDS TO MIX TO 15 TO 20KTS FROM CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHERN SECTIONS TODAY AS LAPSE RATES INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. AFT 09/00Z WINDS TO BECOME GENERALLY LIGHT AND VAR THIS EVENING AS HIGH PRESSURE APPROACHES. && .DMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT/LONG TERM...MS JUN 09 AVIATION...REV
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 520 AM CDT MON JUN 8 2009 IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075- 081>086-092>097-091100- EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO- POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER-SAC-CALHOUN- WEBSTER-HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY-BLACK HAWK-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE- BOONE-STORY-MARSHALL-TAMA-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-POLK-JASPER- POWESHIEK-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-WARREN-MARION-MAHASKA-ADAMS-UNION- CLARKE-LUCAS-MONROE-WAPELLO-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD-DECATUR-WAYNE- APPANOOSE-DAVIS- 520 AM CDT MON JUN 8 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST BY EARLY AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA TUESDAY EVENING...AND OVERSPREAD THE STATE WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS FROM INTERSTATE 80 SOUTH. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE SATURDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY. AT THIS TIME IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
849 AM CDT MON JUN 08 2009
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0103 AM HAIL 3 W CUMBERLAND 41.27N 94.93W
06/07/2009 E2.00 INCH CASS IA PUBLIC
PUBLIC REPORT RELAYED TO KCCI TV.
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DELAYED REPORT
RPKThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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