Flood Warning
NWS Des Moines IA ยท US
Details
Flood Warning In Effect Until This Evening
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
...The National Weather Service in Des Moines has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Iowa... Walnut Creek at Clive I-80/35 affecting Dallas and Polk Counties.
What
Minor flooding is forecast.
Where
Walnut Creek at Clive I-80/35, or from Little Walnut Creek to the North Walnut Creek.
When
Until this evening.
Impacts
At 9.0 feet, Swanson Blvd is closed from Harbach Blvd west to NW 94th St due to storm sewer backup. The intersection of 93rd St and Lincoln St is closed also due to storm sewer backup.
Additional details
- At 1:58 PM CDT Tuesday the stage was 8.9 feet, and rising. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage this afternoon to a crest of 9.1 feet late this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage late this afternoon. - Flood stage is 9.0 feet.
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. For the latest stream observations and forecasts refer to weather.gov/desmoines/water. River forecasts include observed precipitation plus forecast precipitation over the next 24 hours.
Affected areas
- Dallas County, IA
- Polk County, IA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Des Moines IA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~30s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2K7T4N40J57JWG7ND9FJWTM
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e7e43a2e6115de642fa6442eccdf973ed2ddb5c6.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Des Moines IA
- AWIPS ID
- CAPDMX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.2186
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FLW |
| NationalWeatherService | FLW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLWDMX |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS43 KDMX 151913 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL THIS EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KDMX.FL.W.0021.260915T1945Z-260916T0300Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-15T22:00:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Dallas County, IA
- Polk County, IA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 019049 |
| SAME | 019153 |
| UGC | IAC049 |
| UGC | IAC153 |
- Polygons
- 41.61,-93.83 41.65,-93.82 41.61,-93.7 41.58,-93.73 41.6,-93.79 41.61,-93.83