Flood Watch
NWS Des Moines IA ยท US
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Details
Flood Watch In Effect Through Thursday Morning
- 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 Thursday morning.
Impacts
Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Additional details
- While showers are ongoing across parts of southern to central Iowa, a band of heavier rain is expected overnight. Already saturated conditions have lowered the needed rainfall for flash flooding impacts.
Instructions
For the latest stream observations and forecasts refer to weather.gov/desmoines/water.
Affected areas
- Greene County, IA
- Boone County, IA
- Story County, IA
- Marshall County, IA
- Tama County, IA
- Mahaska County, IA
- Monroe County, IA
- Wapello County, IA
- Appanoose County, IA
- Davis County, IA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Des Moines IA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~18s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2NM0QWHQH5FER81ATXTQ075
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1d189022ccb13fdfa051d55a7a3ea280474859df.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.7426
- 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 | FFA |
| NationalWeatherService | FAA |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFADMX |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS63 KDMX 161725 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.EXB.KDMX.FA.A.0013.000000T0000Z-260917T1500Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-17T10:00:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Greene County, IA
- Boone County, IA
- Story County, IA
- Marshall County, IA
- Tama County, IA
- Mahaska County, IA
- Monroe County, IA
- Wapello County, IA
- Appanoose County, IA
- Davis County, IA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 019073 |
| SAME | 019015 |
| SAME | 019169 |
| SAME | 019127 |
| SAME | 019171 |
| SAME | 019123 |
| SAME | 019135 |
| SAME | 019179 |
| SAME | 019007 |
| SAME | 019051 |
| UGC | IAZ046 |
| UGC | IAZ047 |
| UGC | IAZ048 |
| UGC | IAZ049 |
| UGC | IAZ050 |
| UGC | IAZ075 |
| UGC | IAZ085 |
| UGC | IAZ086 |
| UGC | IAZ096 |
| UGC | IAZ097 |