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
Flood protection. Welcome to cbs2 this morning. In cedar rapids is returning back to normal. Traffic is looking fine on this thursday morning. Welcome to cbs2 this morning. Happy thursday. Just in what is going on . Im trying to remember how to we had a lot of rivers and flood stage this morning. We have neatly organized all of rivers that are out of their banks. North of waterloo all the way down to washington. Some of the flood warnings continue. We have some updated numbers. The river is that 19 19. 3, theres actually a new number they are continuing to fall. The crested rivers crested and they are continuing to fall. Lets take a look at the current skycam. It is 50 degrees on the board. Warty nine in waterloo, 53 in iowa city. The winds are out of the north at 510 miles a we will show you the satellite and radar, it is common clear this morning. Not much is going on. We will show you what to plan as we head into the next couple days, let forecast, well also show you what is ahead t
Several major roads including highway 50 seven and 218 are expected to be impacted by the rising water. Crews also loaded cars from and cedar rapids. Sandbagging efforts continue in all of those communities. Communities. Now joining the fight, communities along the maquoketa and wapsipinicon rivers. Heavy rains last night sent more water out of their banks but, so far, its expected to stay well the levels seen in 2008. 2008. And in cedar rapids, the ongoing effort to get everything and everyone out of the way continues before next weeks crest. Well have much more on all of this in just a moment. But first, weve already seen some changes to the flood forecast since last nights rai. Rain. For more we turn to weatherfirst chief meteorologist terry swails who kicks off tonights flood right now, the National Guard is deploying to the flood zones. Zones. Governor branstad today mobilized units to assist in the sandbagging and recovery ef. Efforts. The governor also issued a state disaster li
Thunderstorms are threatening to drop heavy rain in parts of iowa that dont need it. It. Weatherfirst chief meteorologist terry swails is tracking tonights potential for an afternoon fire at a popular cedar rapids restaurant forced thousands of motorists to find an alternate route downtown. Downtown. Fox 28 news anchor kevin barry talked to the owner of rileys cafe and shows us the struggles firefighters faced on scene. Scene. Not many people saw flames from rileys three alarm fire. Fire. But nearly everyone has rileys about 15 years ago but theres been a restaurant in this now charred store front for three decades. Decades. Same spot same location its been a meeting spot where people come and have business meetings and have family gatherings here its quite a loss, such an iconic restaurantcedar rapids finest sent every truck they had with about 30 fighters cycling through chasing flames through rileys roof. Roof. Wayne winn owns mcduffys next door his manager called in the fire. Fire.
Back up earlier in the week. That gets better today. Im kevin barry and Kelly Dambrosio happy friday. Were checking on the weather and what will it be for all the activities we have going on. Reporter nothing major precipitation wise. Temperatures are cool as we take a look at the numbers. 58 degrees is where we are full details on the river coming up. 16. 32 is where the river was. We should get an update in the next 5 to 10 minutes. Well pass that along to you. Vin ton, 15. 05 that is above flood stage with the new information. Anamosa, it continues to fall 17. 05 feet currently. Cool start to the last day of the week and last day of the month as well. 54 degrees. In Williams Burg theyre looking at relatively clear skies. Iowa city 54. Iowa in dubuque. I want to show you the winds and the satellite. 4 to 8 miles per hour. Clouds creeping in from the east to the west. Well tell you why it is a little different this go around instead west to east. Well talk about that and the chance fo