5 APRIL 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

5 APRIL 2010 EXTENDED FORECAST

April 5-9 is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Iowa. GO TO: www.bereadyiowa.org TO SEE ALL THE DETAILS........

In a Nut-Shell: Warmer and more humid air will surge northward over the central Plains today, igniting afternoon storms from eastern Nebraska and eastern Kansas through northern Missouri and Srn Iowa.

The thunderstorms will shift farther north into Iowa, northwestern Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin overnight.

The storms will be capable of producing quarter-to-golf ball-sized hail, locally damaging wind gusts over 60 mph, and a few tornados. Large hail will be the most widespread concern.........

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TONITE - AND TOMORROW..............WE MAY HAVE A COUPLE ROUGH DAYS COMING UP FOR POW COUNTY WITH SEVERE WEATHER.

TODAY: A STORM DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN COLORADO BY THIS AFTERNOON WILL INTENSIFY OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS AND MOVE INTO CENTRAL IOWA TUESDAY MORNING. A STRONG WARM FRONT IS EXPECTED TO RACE QUICKLY NORTH TO CENTRAL IOWA LATER THIS EVENING AND BRING WITH IT SOME VERY ACTIVE WEATHER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD NORTH INTO IOWA THIS MORNING AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL SPREAD FROM SW TO NE THIS AFTERNOON. BY THIS EVENING...SOME STORMS SOUTH OF I-80 FROM POW COUNTY SOUTHEAST MAY ALSO PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

TOMORROW: EXPECT SEVERE STORMS AGAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN CENTRAL AND EAST IOWA AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE STATE. ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOS WILL OCCUR FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN IOWA TUESDAY MAINLY EAST OF DES MOINES AND SOUTH OF WATERLOO.

TODAY 5TH - INCREASING CLOUDS - SHOWERS/ISOLATED THUNDER BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM (SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS/ISOLATED TORNADOS BY 8PM) (HEAVY RAIN 2-3 INCHES POSSIBLE AFTER 8PM) - TEMP 70

TUESDAY 6TH - PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY - WINDY - SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BY NOON - (SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE AFTERNOON) TEMP 75

WED 7TH - SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDER THRU THE DAY - WINDY - TEMP 55

THURSDAY THRU SUN 8TH-11TH - PARTLY CLOUDY BECOMMING MOSTLY CLOUDY - TEMP LOW 60'S - TEMPS HIGH 50'S/LOW 60'S - RAIN AND THUNDER AFTERNOON/EVENING SATURDAY AND SUNDAY - TEMP MID 50'S CLIMBING TO MID 60'S BY THE WEEKEND

MON THRU THURSDAY 12TH-15TH - MOSTLY CLOUDY (SHOWERS/THUNDER) - WINDY

FRI THRU TUES 16TH-20TH - PARTLY CLOUDY