Area was highlighted as being under tornado risk. For more on the powerful system heading our way and what we will be seen here later this afternoon, lets head straight to chronic a johnson. Veronica johnson. Veronica 3 00, 4 00 this it isoon, that is when supposed to hit our area. Not so much the fog this morning, know its there, but the afternoon hours, after 1 00 this afternoon, severe storms with high winds and an isolated tornado is possible. The severest thunderstorm 1 warning in Garrett County is discontinued. Cloud cover with temperatures in the upper 50s, even some high humidity this morning. Temperature later today going up the afternoon and evening rush. Storms not moving through, getting out of here, until 6 p. M. Today. Temperatures will be very warm. For 70 possible be the fuel for some of these storms. Even once the system moves through, were left with a lot of wind. It could get up to 45 miles per hour. Areall have a look at rainfall, expecting right now anywhere from o
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And bring you updates on air and online. Lets check in with chief meteorologist terry swails for our weather first forecast. We are tracking a weather system that should be rain in the next 24 hours. Bring rain in the next 24 hours. You can see the clouds are increasing, but the precipitation as well to the west of us. As we look at local radar, nothing is showing up in eastern iowa and it will be late tonight or early tomorrow morning before the precipitation shows up. For the Early Morning commute, there may be a stray shower with temperatures around the 30 31 degree mark and there could be a wet snowflakes mixed in. By the afternoon it should change to snow. The snow will be light. Temperatures will be cool and holding in the 30s. The man who kidnapped, sexually assault look assaulted and killed jacob behind bars. Danny heinrich admitted to taking wetterling in 1989. He took investigators to the 11 yearolds remains. He apologized for his evil acts. Another tv crew spoke to him after
Few tornadoes. Tonight storms continue to pound parts of the viewing area. We now go to meteorologist terry swails who has your weather first forecast. We did have a number of tornado Warnings Issued and we were on the air for about three consecutive hours for that reason. Now we have evolved to a flash flood threat around eastern iowa as heavy rains have fallen in the northern and western counties. Before this happened there was north and that will be out until 7 00 on thursday so we were concerned with the development of storms and it came to fruition today. Now we are seeing rain and big totals coming from the northern and western counties particularly in floyd county. Heres the radar and you can see we still have thunderstorms that are active around the area. They are in the Northern Counties. This is north of highway 20. This is where we see some of counties. We do have a Flash Flood Warning that is in effect and that includes county. That is out until three or clock. Strong storm
Now in the southwest you can see another strong cell that is located to the north of sumner. This is located to the north of highway 20. This storm tracking to the north of be around hawkeye, west union and claremont between now and 11 00 tonight. Heavy rainfall is the primary threat. Additional storms are expected around eastern iowa as we go to the nighttime hours. A Flash Flood Watch is out to the north. We are expecting more heavy rain and flooding problems around the northern parts of the viewing area. We have breaking news related to the weather. Firefighters in charles city are going door to door to warn residents that evacuations could be ordered at any time between now and friday afternoon when the cedar river could be cresting. In floyd county they are saying travel is not advised. More rain is expected there. Wide due to the high waters. Stay home if you can. In the meantime scott you have pictures that illustrate the storm. Thanks to our viewers who shared their pictures. T