***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[CloneinWDSM]

Not sure if it was a tornado or just high winds but my little hometown in Western Iowa has a bunch of large trees down blocking streets, powerlines down, HS softball field had a bunch of damage.

 

[cycloner29]

If you had two bad posts,a good chance the rest was starting to go. There is a chance that what they did expedited the others falling but it was just going to be time.

Maybe it’s time for you to cut back on posting then. I just checked and my posts are all solid!!

 

[do4CY]

Still don't understand why we didn't get audible alerts on our phone for the Story County tornado warning. The alert came through because we had to dismiss them, but no sound. Talking with folks in the office this morning and it looks to be split pretty close to 50/50 whether the alert was audible or not. We would have slept right through it had I not waken up at 4:30 and happened to check the radar right before the warning came out.

I was startled awake this morning to my phone blaring the warning. After I practiced my Kung fu to get it turned off I realized we weren't even in the warning. It sure got the blood pumping though.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Heard those but only after my mom got an alert on same phone that I have and woke me up.

If she hadn't woken up I could have even slept through sirens.

I apparently DID. And no phone alert.

 

[awd4cy]

This is starting to feel very, very 2013...

Seems like a drought always bring flooding eventually. Problem with 2013, we had all the flooding, then the rain shut off again after mid June and we went right back to a severe drought.

 

[IASTATE07]

Tired. Gonna be a long day at work.

I thought you worked here?

 

[StateThrowdown]

This is starting to feel very, very 2013...

I’ve been thinking this too. Constant rain until mid June and then it was like somebody shut off the spigot.

 

[JP4CY]

I thought you worked here?

Williams is a taskmaster.

 

[Turn2]

Going on 6 hours with no electricity in Ankeny, east of I-35. Got my 3 mile walk in and saw no storm damage.

 

[Turn2]

Going on 6 hours with no electricity in Ankeny, east of I-35. Got my 3 mile walk in and saw no storm damage.

Well, that worked. Juice just returned.

 

[wintersmd]

I don’t love this pattern that Iowa is in right now. Reminds me of some of the big flood years and June is right around the corner.

I was just saying that this reminds me of the 93 floods. Seems like serious rain every 1-2 days.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I was just saying that this reminds me of the 93 floods. Seems like serious rain every 1-2 days.

I remember a continuous loop of rain-evaporate in the heat-rain for nearly the entire month of July 1993. Des Moines had no water for quite a few days. I met my husband right after those floods, and heard many horror stories from him.

 

[MeanDean]

I remember a continuous loop of rain-evaporate in the heat-rain for nearly the entire month of July 1993. Des Moines had no water for quite a few days. I met my husband right after those floods, and heard many horror stories from him.

I was one of 3 on staff Civil Engineers directing flood fighting efforts at a Military base located on an Island in the Middle of the Mississippi during that all time record flood event on the river.

I remember many 13+ hour days (and nights). Definitely the most demanding 3 weeks of my career. Also the most rewarding and memorable.

 

[wintersmd]

I remember a continuous loop of rain-evaporate in the heat-rain for nearly the entire month of July 1993. Des Moines had no water for quite a few days. I met my husband right after those floods, and heard many horror stories from him.

I was at FT Hood for an Army school. My wife was 7 months pregnant during that time. When I got home I never heard the end of it. I missed the no water in Des Moines

 

[cmjh10]

That's on you.

What can I say, I’m all about efficiency

 

[CrossCyed]

you can see the storm roll in on the cytown webcam around 5:01 AM

 

[Gunnerclone]

It's definitely a much different pattern from last year. Love the new normal of extremes.

There was originally more to my post above, but I thought better of it.

 

[BCClone]

Sent a map that showed since the middle of April, this has been the wettest stretch in 132 years for NC Iowa. All but SE Iowa and EC Iowa it’s been top 3 at least.

 

[FDWxMan]

Johnston with the double dip this week.

NWS confirms EF-0 this morning, Terra Park to the NE.

 

[NorthCyd]

Johnston with the double dip this week.

NWS confirms EF-0 this morning, Terra Park to the NE.

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I drove down 37th this morning and saw a large tree that had been uprooted by the storm very close to that track.