IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 18 April 2013

Big Rain Event

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 05:48 AM

Rainfall was plentiful over much of the state on Wednesday as shown by the featured map of NOAA NMQ precipitation estimates. These estimates are primarily based off of RADAR information and show a large swath of the state in the 3-6 inch total range for Wednesday. So we are rapidly transitioning from a drought condition to flooding now with more precipitation on the way along with snow for northern Iowa. Based on some preliminary IEM estimates, yesterday's statewide averaged precipitation was 1.93 inches, which would be the highest calendar day total since 13 September 1961!

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