Tornado Watch issued July 20 at 6:17PM CDT until July 20 at 10:00PM CDT by NWS Des Moines IA
- Level
- Extreme (5/5) · CAP Extreme
- Region
- North America
- Category
- Weather
- Source
- NWS / NOAA weather
Tornado watch 500 remains valid until 10 PM CDT this evening for
the following areas
In iowa this watch includes 19 counties
In central iowa
Boone dallas grundy
hamilton hardin jasper
marshall polk poweshiek
story tama webster
In south central iowa
Madison mahaska marion
warren
In southwest iowa
Adair
In west central iowa
Greene guthrie
This includes the cities of ackley, adair, adel, ames, bayard,
boone, carlisle, casey, conrad, des moines, dike, dysart,
earlham, eldora, fontanelle, fort dodge, gladbrook, greenfield,
grinnell, grundy center, guthrie center, indianola, iowa falls,
jefferson, knoxville, marshalltown, newton, norwalk, oskaloosa,
panora, pella, perry, reinbeck, stuart, tama, toledo, traer,
waukee, webster city, wellsburg, and winterset.
* primary threats include...
A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible.
Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
to 75 MPH possible.
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5
inches in diameter possible.
- This month
- 105th Weather alert at severity 5+ in the last 30 days