Shelf cloud west of Lincoln, NE August 31st 2014 Lincoln skyline August 31st 2014
Yesterday I had the quick opportunity to go storm chasing. Even though we knew the risk was not extreamlly high, we decided to take the risk to see something in a relatively quiet season we've had. I left West Des Moines around 1 with storm chasing friend Alex W. who drove in all the way from southern Minnesota and we headed for Nebraska and by the time we reached Omaha storms were already breaking out near the Kansas, Nebraska border.
We caught up with those storms about 40 miles southwest of Lincoln where the temperature shot up into the lower 90s with strong southerly winds. We saw elevated material quickly become nice looking shelf clouds near Crete, NE, pictured above We continued to followed these storms through SE Nebraska, we saw quarter sized hail and wall clouds all the way past the Nebraska City area into southwest Iowa. The last bout of severe weather seen was strong winds and very heavy rain in Shenandoah
One last photo you can see the edge of our large cluster of storms as we approached them from the northeast. They were looking very impressive.
Severe storm report- Central Iowa Heavy rain & flash flooding
Severe storms tracked all the way from eastern Nebraska and western Iowa before reaching the local area around 9pm last night in the form of a very large line that stretched across the entire state. This line produced wind damage, heavy rain and flash flooding in our areas as in dropped another 2-3" of rain across the area we did not need. The worst of the severe weather and damage was reported over northwest parts of the area. Many reports of 60MPH winds came in from the Dallas Center, Adel area with trees and power lines down. There was one report of minor damage in the Des Moines metro at Urbandale of trees limbs down More wind damage reports came in from Slater of trees down and Story City area of 60MPH winds. There was also 60-70MPH wind reports from Prairie City fo Knoxville areas. Des Moines international airport reported a 52MPH winds gust. There was also a funnel cloud reported southeast of Boone but a tornado did not develop. There storms were also responsible of producing flash flooding. Water was reported flowing over the roads in Minburn and near Granger. In Des Moines 6 inch water was reported over SW 9th street with cars stalling out in the water. Rainfall reports were 2-3"
At my backyard 2.45" of rain was reported bringing the August total all the way to 10.72" and I had water in the basement which I haven't had before.
Reports
Perry 58MPH wind gust
2 miles S Dawson 3" of rain fell in less then an hour
3 miles W Dallas Center 60MPH winds
Numerous reports of water over Highway 44 from Dallas Center to Minburn
10 to 12" branches down in Dallas Center
Adel Trees and powerlines down
4 miles E Minburn 64MPH wind gust
Berkley 60MPH wind gust
3 miles SW Boone Funnel cloud
Slater, large tree limbs down
Roland 60MPH wind gust
Urbandale, Tree limbs down
2 miles SSW Prairie City 59MPH wind gust
Knoxville 71MPH wind gust
Rainfall reports
4 miles ENE Dallas Center 2.62"
Mardrid 2.35"
Grimes 2.20"
Polk City 2.24"
Des Moines international 2.19"
Des Moines fairmount part neighborhood ( My station ) 2.45"
Ankeny 1.95"
Ames 2.22"
Nevada 2.26"
Marshalltown 2.40"
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