***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[cycloner29]

This was from the Harlan area.

 

[CoachHines3]

just got to work to realize there is a nado' warning in western adair county. i live in adair county

 

[cycloner29]

just got to work to realize there is a nado' warning in western adair county. i live in adair county

Remember the five D’s:

1.Dodge
2.Duck
3.Dip
4.Dive
5.Dodge

 

[CoachHines3]

Remember the five D’s:
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1.Dodge
2.Duck
3.Dip
4.Dive
5.Dodge

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

Dark enough that the street lights are on outside my ISU office. Huh.

 

[Jer]

I live in our basement 22 hrs a day and always have the shades closed - so I don’t see or hear anything but thunder. How much have we gotten out in Waukee? The few times I’ve looked outside the past few days, it’s looked like it was going to rain but I never then hear or see anything. The house is really humid however.

 

[ackatch]

I live in our basement 22 hrs a day and always have the shades closed - so I don’t see or hear anything but thunder. How much have we gotten out in Waukee? The few times I’ve looked outside the past few days, it’s looked like it was going to rain but I never then hear or see anything. The house is really humid however.

I'm right across 80 from Rubes and my weather station says only .06" so far today. Dark AF out right now though.

 

[Jer]

I'm right across 80 from Rubes and my weather station says only .06" so far today. Dark AF out right now though.

We live in Glynn Village behind Sugar Creek Golf. Seems like it’s been going right North or right South of us like 90% of storms do.

 

[BoxsterCy]

I live in our basement 22 hrs a day and always have the shades closed - so I don’t see or hear anything but thunder. How much have we gotten out in Waukee? The few times I’ve looked outside the past few days, it’s looked like it was going to rain but I never then hear or see anything. The house is really humid however.

You're probably good until the water gets ankle deep in your basement. Higher than that I'd worry about the electrical outlets.

 

[CySki]

We live in Glynn Village behind Sugar Creek Golf. Seems like it’s been going right North or right South of us like 90% of storms do.

I live in Glynn Village too and my gauge is showing 0.09" since midnight.

 

[BCClone]

Drought monitor says you are lying.

Remember it takes months of this weather to break the drought posters said. I may be living in a tent in my roof by then. Since march 15, we are knocking on the door of 20 inches.

 

[CPG4ISU]

Something unsettling about this time is May 20-25 is known as "the week of the F5" for traditional tornado ally. Of the 9 F5s to hit the US since 2000, 4 of them happened between May 20-25. The other 4 all hit Dixie Ally on April 27, 2011, and then Greensburg on May, 4, 2007.

May 25, 2008: Parkersburg EF5
May 22, 2011: Joplin EF5
May 24, 2011: Peidmont EF5
May 20, 2013: Moore EF5

 

[FDWxMan]

Is there really enough difference between a baseball and tennis ball to necessitate a distinction?

Tennis ball is 2.5"
Baseball is 2.75"
Large appe is 3"

 

[dafarmer]

1.3”” in 20 minutes, wind but no hail. 1.8” since l12:30 A.M.

 

[awd4cy]

Remember it takes months of this weather to break the drought posters said. I may be living in a tent in my roof by then. Since march 15, we are knocking on the door of 20 inches.

People always do that, lol. Reminds me in 2013 when everyone said that. Think May had like 2 days without rain that year. Drought talk vanished in a hurry.

 

[cowgirl836]

Something unsettling about this time is May 20-25 is known as "the week of the F5" for traditional tornado ally. Of the 9 F5s to hit the US since 2000, 4 of them happened between May 20-25. The other 4 all hit Dixie Ally on April 27, 2011, and then Greensburg on May, 4, 2007.

May 25, 2008: Parkersburg EF5
May 22, 2011: Joplin EF5
May 24, 2011: Peidmont EF5
May 20, 2013: Moore EF5

I was just thinking through memories of how Memorial weekend sticks out as a time we tended to get nasty storms. That and county fair week in August. When was the tornado that hit Dunkerton in the 00s? That Pburg storm set dropped a spin up on our farm. There's another bad set sometime late 90s that I remember too.

Eta wrong city

 

[awd4cy]

Something unsettling about this time is May 20-25 is known as "the week of the F5" for traditional tornado ally. Of the 9 F5s to hit the US since 2000, 4 of them happened between May 20-25. The other 4 all hit Dixie Ally on April 27, 2011, and then Greensburg on May, 4, 2007.

May 25, 2008: Parkersburg EF5
May 22, 2011: Joplin EF5
May 24, 2011: Peidmont EF5
May 20, 2013: Moore EF5

Could be wrong, but I think the threat for very large tornadoes is pretty small. Straight line winds being the biggest threat and hail.

 

[CySki]

Sirens in Waukee...

 

[clone4life82]

I think there’s a good possibility schools will send kids home early. They don’t want to have kids on busses if storms are rolling through.

Waukee is talking about it. Sirens going off in ankeny

 

[cyfanatic]