IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Far NE Iowa Flooding
Posted: 25 Aug 2016 05:35 AM
We have seen plenty of extreme rainfall events this summer in Iowa. This time extreme
northeastern Iowa was hit hard with storm totals between 6-8 inches over a good portion of
a three county area. You only need to travel about a county's distance south to find near
zero totals from the same event! The featured chart displays the combination of RADAR
based estimated precipitation from MRMS (contours) and actual observed reports (point
labels). It is seeminglyt rare to see MRMS under-estimate precipitation totals, but it did for
this event. Flooding is ongoing in the area with some gauges at all time record highs (like
the Upper Iowa River at Dorchester).
Voting:
Good = 16
Bad = 0
Voting:
Good = 16
Bad = 0