Iowa weather: One more round of severe storms possible tonight

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]FOR THE ANNUAL ARTS FESTIVAL.

[00:00:02]IT LOOKS LIKE NOW WE’RE GOING TO JUST TOSS TO ZANE ZANE.

[00:00:06]YOU POSTED THAT VIDEO ON SOCIAL MEDIA LAST NIGHT OR THIS MORNING.

[00:00:08]I DON’T KNOW WHEN, BUT OH MY GOSH, IT’S JUST SO SCARY.

[00:00:10]YEAH.

[00:00:11]NIGHTTIME TORNADOES.

[00:00:11]YEAH, THOSE LITTLE ONES THAT ARE TUCKED INTO THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORM HERE TOO.

[00:00:16]YEAH, THAT WAS A DICEY SITUATION.

[00:00:17]ONE OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT REPORTED TORNADOES HERE THAT WE HAD MAINLY ACROSS NORTHWEST IOWA YESTERDAY EVENING.

[00:00:21]JODI.

[00:00:22]NOW, I THINK THE MAIN FOCUS FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHIFTS SOUTHWARD INTO TONIGHT.

[00:00:26]RIGHT NOW LOOK OVER DES MOINES METRO.

[00:00:28]PRETTY GRAY SKIES DOWN IN SOUTHERN IOWA RIGHT NOW IN LAMONI.

[00:00:31]AS WE LOOK BACK TOWARDS TOWN HERE, YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT BLUER.

[00:00:34]LOOK TO THE SKY DOWN THIS DIRECTION.

[00:00:35]WE DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CLEARING STILL TO GET DONE TO HEAT UP, MAYBE GET A LITTLE BIT MORE MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE.

[00:00:41]BUT HERE’S THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK WE SHOWED YOU A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ON THE LEVEL FOUR RISK DOES EXTEND INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF IOWA HERE AS FAR NORTHEAST AS RIGHT ABOUT TOWARDS BEDFORD OR SO.

[00:00:50]AND THEN THERE’S A WIDER ZONE THAT’S IN OUR LEVEL THREE RISK, THE ORANGE AREA.

[00:00:53]BUT I THINK WE SHOULD REALLY CONCENTRATE PROBABLY ON THE ZONE.

[00:00:56]THAT PART OF THE ZONE THAT’S SOUTH OF I-80 AFTER THE SUPPER HOUR TONIGHT, 6:00 ONWARD THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE NIGHT, THOSE STORMS KIND OF GO RIGHT FROM SOUTHWEST TO EAST.

[00:01:06]NORTHEAST IS WHERE WE’RE GOING TO WATCH.

[00:01:08]DAMAGING WIND THREAT WILL PROBABLY BE THE HIGHEST.

[00:01:10]THERE COULD BE A TORNADO THREAT, KIND OF LIKE LAST NIGHT, EMBEDDED INTO THE LEADING EDGE OF SOME OF THESE STORMS.

[00:01:15]AND THEN FAR SOUTHWEST IOWA, I THINK, IS PROBABLY YOUR HIGHER END POSSIBILITY OF SOME HAIL.

[00:01:19]NOW, ALSO IN SOUTHERN IOWA, WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE THE BULK OF THOSE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH.

[00:01:23]WE DO HAVE A FLOOD WATCH THAT’S GOING TO BE IN EFFECT.

[00:01:25]NOW, YOU FOLKS DOWN THIS DIRECTION TOWARDS PLACES LIKE MOUNT AIR AND BEDFORD AND LENOX AND SO ON, YOU GOT ANYWHERE FROM 2 TO 4 TO SAW REPORTS OF FIVE INCHES OF RAIN BACK ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

[00:01:33]AND NOW WE’VE GOT SOME MORE COMING YOUR DIRECTION.

[00:01:36]SO ANYWHERE YOU KNOW, YOUR LOW LYING SPOTS, YOUR SMALL WATERWAYS, YOUR CREEKS, STREAMS, SMALL RIVERS, THOSE ARE GOING TO BE AT RISK OF SOME FLOODING HERE DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS AS THOSE STORMS MOVE THROUGH.

[00:01:47]WE’LL SHOW YOUR RAINFALL PROJECTIONS IN ONE SECOND.

[00:01:49]RIGHT NOW, GENERAL, VARYING LEVELS OF CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE STATE.

[00:01:52]IF WE WIDEN THINGS OUT, WE’LL LOOK ACROSS THE WHOLE MIDWEST.

[00:01:55]YOU CAN SEE WE MENTIONED EARLIER THERE’S A BOUNDARY SORT OF DRAPED SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST THROUGH IOWA TO THE SOUTH, A KIND OF DECAYING COMPLEX OF STORMS DOWN TOWARDS MISSOURI.

[00:02:03]WE’VE HAD SOME CLOUD COVER BLOWING OFF OF THAT.

[00:02:05]THAT’S KIND OF SLOWED DOWN OUR WARMING PROCESS AS THOSE CLOUDS HAVE DRIFTED UP NORTHWARD INTO IOWA.

[00:02:10]AND THIS FRONT IS MAYBE A HAIR FARTHER SOUTHEAST THAN I WOULD HAVE SAID YESTERDAY.

[00:02:14]SO THOSE ARE THE FEATURES WE’RE GOING TO WATCH HERE.

[00:02:16]STORMS.

[00:02:16]THEY’RE GOING TO FIRE RIGHT HERE, TUCKED JUST TO THE EAST OF LOW PRESSURE DOWN INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN KANSAS.

[00:02:23]THAT’S REALLY WHERE THE HIGHEST LEVEL THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS TODAY.

[00:02:26]THAT’S WHERE STORMS WILL START.

[00:02:27]AND THEN THEY GO NORTHEASTWARD HERE TOWARDS US AS WE HEAD INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE NIGHT.

[00:02:32]SO LET’S GO THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON.

[00:02:34]YOU SEE, WE’RE GOING TO TRY TO CLEAR SKIES OUT A LITTLE BIT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE, BOOST OUR TEMPERATURES UP THROUGH THE 70S, MAYBE TOUCH 80 DEGREES.

[00:02:41]NOTICE IF YOU’RE IN NORTH CENTRAL, NORTHWEST IOWA, YOU’RE LOCKED IN THE CLOUDS.

[00:02:44]SO REALLY, I THINK THE NORTHERN PART OF THAT LEVEL THREE RISK UP TOWARDS HIGHWAY 30 AND NORTHWESTWARD PROBABLY IS NOT GOING TO BE AROUND.

[00:02:50]I THINK YOUR SEVERE WEATHER THREATS A LOT LOWER.

[00:02:53]SO LET’S LOOK TO SOUTHWEST IOWA.

[00:02:54]THEN AS WE HEAD PAST ABOUT 4 TO 5 P.M., THERE’S OUR STORMS COMING IN FROM THE SOUTH AND THE WEST.

[00:02:59]THIS IS NOW TOWARDS ABOUT 6:00.

[00:03:01]LET’S, YOU KNOW, KIND OF FUDGE IT BY AN HOUR OR SO HERE AS WE PROJECT AHEAD AND THEN WATCH THOSE STORMS KIND OF BO OUT.

[00:03:07]THAT WOULD BE YOUR WIND THREAT MOVING EASTWARD, KIND OF ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 34 AS WE HEAD TOWARDS 7 TO 8 P.M., TOWARDS PLACES LIKE MOUNT AYR, LAMONI CORYDON, MAYBE AS FAR NORTH AS OSCEOLA AND CHARITON.

[00:03:18]AS WE GO INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE EVENING, DES MOINES METRO, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT FARTHER NORTH, BUT STILL A WIND THREAT.

[00:03:23]AND THEN THESE STORMS WILL PROBABLY START TO GUST OUT AS WE HEAD LATER ON INTO THE NIGHT AND THEY MOVE EASTWARD.

[00:03:29]AND THEN EVENTUALLY THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT KIND OF ENDS.

[00:03:32]WE JUST HAVE SOME RESIDUAL SHOWERS LEFT OVER INTO THE FIRST PART OF OUR TUESDAY.

[00:03:36]PLENTY OF GRAY SKIES THERE, BUT WE WILL HAVE ADDED UP QUITE A BIT OF RAIN.

[00:03:40]NOTICE WHERE THE BRIGHTEST COLORS KIND OF THAT BLUE TO PURPLE, THAT’S 1 TO 2IN, PERHAPS SOME THREE INCH POTENTIAL HERE TO RIGHT ALONG THE MISSOURI STATE LINE, RIGHT WHERE WE HAVE THAT FLOOD WATCH OUT IN THE AREAS THAT ALREADY SAW MULTIPLE INCHES OF RAIN BACK ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

[00:03:55]SO THAT’S THE MAIN THREATS WE’RE LOOKING AT.

[00:03:57]ONCE WE GET PAST TONIGHT, IT’S A LOT MORE OF A TRANQUIL FORECAST HERE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK, ALBEIT A LITTLE BIT COOLER DOWN TO SOME 60S HERE TOMORROW.

[00:04:03]ON TUESDAY, GRAY SKIES, BREEZY WINDS FROM THE NOR