After a bit of a respite to start August, we are back to where July left off with isolated and near daily heavy rainfall events. On Thursday morning, a training complex of storms dumped heavy rainfall from Des Moines southward to Centerville. The featured map presents a smoothed analysis of available NWS Local Storm Reports, COOP, and CoCoRaHS rainfall totals valid Thursday morning. The 7.3 inch report plotted on the map is near Centerville. The autoplot that generated this map was recently updated to support these rainfall reports. It previously was the app that generated snowfall analysis maps in a similar form.

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