Heavy rain throughout the middle of the month caused the Cedar River at Cedar Falls to go into flood briefly.
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Heavy rain throughout the middle of the month caused the Cedar River at Cedar Falls to go into flood briefly.
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 16, 2:09 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Des Moines IA 309 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016 .SHORT TERM.../Tonight/ Issued at 309 PM CDT Thu Jun 16 2016 Upper ridge continues to build across the central US, with boundary set up to the west where moisture push is located in return flow around the area of high pressure. Higher res models were trying to bubble up some convection in vicinity of the boundary this evening, but soundings indicating large cap in place. Therefore have removed the slight chance pops for the southwest. .LONG TERM.../Friday through Thursday/ Issued at 309 PM CDT Thu Jun 16 2016 Some overnight storms possible across the Dakotas could move down the moisture gradient toward the western CWA into Friday. However boundary begins to move west a bit, and if the activity nears the state expect it to stay to west of the CWA. With the temperatures remaining cooler today with the northeast flow and boundary further west, have opted to keep temps a bit cooler for Friday and Saturday with the heat returning for Sunday as the thermal ridge builds back eastward. Still potential for heat headlines into Sunday as the dewpoints increase as southerly flow shoves moisture back into the state. The southerly flow picks up ahead of the cold front expected to drop through the state late Sunday night through Monday night as the upper ridge breaks down. This will bring a return of precipitation chances with the cold frontal passage. More seasonal temperatures expected into next week, with dry conditions returning as the the upper ridge builds back northward into the western and central US into the middle of next week. && .AVIATION.../For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Friday afternoon/ Issued at 1233 PM CDT Thu Jun 16 2016 VFR conditions are expected through the TAF period with light northerly winds gradually veering to the SE by the end of the period. && .DMX Watches/Warnings/Advisories...none. && SHORT TERM...Beerends LONG TERM...Beerends AVIATION...Skow
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 311 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016 IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075- 081>086-092>097-171000- 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- 311 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA SUNDAY. HEAT INDEX VALUES COULD APPROACH 100 DEGREES. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MJB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Cedar River at Cedar Falls crested at 89.4 feet on 17 June 2016 at 2:00 pm CDT.
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