Flood Warning
NWS Des Moines IA ยท US
Details
Flood Warning Remains In Effect Until Late Tonight
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Iowa... Raccoon River at Des Moines Fleur Dr affecting Polk County.
What
Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
Where
Raccoon River at Des Moines Fleur Dr, or from Walnut Creek to the Des Moines River.
When
Until late tonight.
Impacts
At 15.5 feet, Water approaches Fleur Dr and affects the Grays Lake trails.
Additional details
- At 3:47 AM CDT Wednesday the stage was 15.1 feet, and falling. - Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage this evening and continue falling to 3.7 feet Tuesday evening. - Flood stage is 12.0 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
- Polk County, IA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Des Moines IA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~29s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2MQW6D4SF29WFA32CQ40ENA
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.30fab1908c866dc23ba9c1af580381af47b55865.001.1
- 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.5842
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
References
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FLS |
| NationalWeatherService | FLW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLSDMX |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS83 KDMX 160913 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TONIGHT |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.CON.KDMX.FL.W.0020.000000T0000Z-260917T0723Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-17T02:23:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
| expiredReferences | w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.a647bfc7e4e9f7f58678d810ee1d3f0ba8a5aa88.001.1,2026-09-15T13:45:00-05:00 |
Locations
Location data
- Polk County, IA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 019153 |
| UGC | IAC153 |
- Polygons
- 41.56,-93.6 41.54,-93.68 41.59,-93.68 41.6,-93.61 41.56,-93.6