Flood Watch
NWS Des Moines IA ยท US
Updated
This event was updated at .
Details
Flood Watch Remains In Effect Through Wednesday Afternoon
- Event
- Flood Watch
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Future
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Possible
- Response
- Prepare
Description
What
Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible.
Where
Portions of central and southern Iowa.
When
Through Wednesday afternoon.
Impacts
Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Additional details
- Showers and isolated storms will focus over southern Iowa through the afternoon. Then, heavy rainfall is forecast to move back into the area late Tuesday night into Wednesday, especially over far southern Iowa.
Instructions
For the latest stream observations and forecasts refer to weather.gov/desmoines/water.
Affected areas
- Audubon County, IA
- Guthrie County, IA
- Dallas County, IA
- Polk County, IA
- Jasper County, IA
- Poweshiek County, IA
- Cass County, IA
- Adair County, IA
- Madison County, IA
- Warren County, IA
- Marion County, IA
- Adams County, IA
- Union County, IA
- Clarke County, IA
- Lucas County, IA
- Taylor County, IA
- Ringgold County, IA
- Decatur County, IA
- Wayne County, IA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Des Moines IA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~26s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2K944KZ0F0SHHV7AYVJNMRC
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.db6e06f1717b16e41cb47efc53b1c9dee04946e1.002.1
- 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.2559
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
References
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.0ec0d724aa7419669c62177ef3e4de245fa1b4c8.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.192fe0a99e97657cfda64edd8520b15c95abeb4f.002.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.192fe0a99e97657cfda64edd8520b15c95abeb4f.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e5587cbcdcc27f703e1457bc03ea2cad5d10260e.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.fa8a314b60c96ba7c9a03c6c802949ec34798d3e.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FFA |
| NationalWeatherService | FAA |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFADMX |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS63 KDMX 151936 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.CON.KDMX.FA.A.0013.000000T0000Z-260916T1800Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-16T13:00:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
| expiredReferences | w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.192fe0a99e97657cfda64edd8520b15c95abeb4f.002.1,2026-09-14T11:24:00-05:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.192fe0a99e97657cfda64edd8520b15c95abeb4f.001.1,2026-09-14T11:24:00-05:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e5587cbcdcc27f703e1457bc03ea2cad5d10260e.001.1,2026-09-14T05:44:00-05:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.fa8a314b60c96ba7c9a03c6c802949ec34798d3e.001.1,2026-09-13T20:19:00-05:00 |
Locations
Location data
- Audubon County, IA
- Guthrie County, IA
- Dallas County, IA
- Polk County, IA
- Jasper County, IA
- Poweshiek County, IA
- Cass County, IA
- Adair County, IA
- Madison County, IA
- Warren County, IA
- Marion County, IA
- Adams County, IA
- Union County, IA
- Clarke County, IA
- Lucas County, IA
- Taylor County, IA
- Ringgold County, IA
- Decatur County, IA
- Wayne County, IA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 019009 |
| SAME | 019077 |
| SAME | 019049 |
| SAME | 019153 |
| SAME | 019099 |
| SAME | 019157 |
| SAME | 019029 |
| SAME | 019001 |
| SAME | 019121 |
| SAME | 019181 |
| SAME | 019125 |
| SAME | 019003 |
| SAME | 019175 |
| SAME | 019039 |
| SAME | 019117 |
| SAME | 019173 |
| SAME | 019159 |
| SAME | 019053 |
| SAME | 019185 |
| UGC | IAZ057 |
| UGC | IAZ058 |
| UGC | IAZ059 |
| UGC | IAZ060 |
| UGC | IAZ061 |
| UGC | IAZ062 |
| UGC | IAZ070 |
| UGC | IAZ071 |
| UGC | IAZ072 |
| UGC | IAZ073 |
| UGC | IAZ074 |
| UGC | IAZ081 |
| UGC | IAZ082 |
| UGC | IAZ083 |
| UGC | IAZ084 |
| UGC | IAZ092 |
| UGC | IAZ093 |
| UGC | IAZ094 |
| UGC | IAZ095 |