IEM Daily Bulletin

[Iowa Mesonet]

Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin
Data valid for 06 December 2007

> News
    No news is good news

> Yesterday's Daily Feature

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http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/features/cat.php?day=2007-12-06
 | Title : 3 storms in 1 week
 | Date  : 06 Dec 12:00 AM
 | Votes : Good: 40   Bad: 11
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The featured image is taken from the <a href="http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/bufkit/bufkit.html">BUFKIT program</a>. BUFKIT is a model forecast profile visualization and analysis tool kit developed by the staff at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Buffalo and the Warning Decision Training Branch (WDTB) in Norman, OK.  It can be used to look at model soundings for many sites across Iowa and the country.  The image is from the GFS model sounding for Des Moines.  It shows chances of snow off and on all the way through Tuesday with some sleet forecasted on Saturday!  If you are interested with using BUFKIT, check out Chris Karsten's awesome <a href="http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~ckarsten/bufkit/bufkit.html">The BUFKIT Warehouse</a> site.  Also, did you know that the IEM maintains a BUFKIT archive for sites in and around Iowa since 2006?

> NWS Watch/Warning Summary
*** Products issued on 06 Dec 2007

             Summary +_________ By WFO ____________+  Watches 
Type         US   IA | ARX   DVN   DMX   OAX   FSD |  US 
Tornado       0    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 |   0
Svr Tstorm    0    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 |   0
Fl Flood      0    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 | N/A

ARX = LaCrosse, WI  DVN = Davenport, IA    DMX = Des Moines, IA 
OAX = Omaha, NE     FSD = Sioux Falls, SD