IEM Daily Bulletin

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Wed Oct 10 11:01:22 CDT 2007


Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin
Data valid for 09 October 2007

> News
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 | Title : SchoolNet partial outage
 | Date  : 10 Oct 08:42 AM
 | Author: Daryl Herzmann
 | URL   : http://www.schoolnet8.com
 +----------------------------------------------

Some sort of network issue is preventing roughly half of the
SchoolNet8 sites from reporting data to the internet.  We are
working to track down the problem and get it fixed.

> Yesterday's Daily Feature

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http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/features/cat.php?day=2007-10-09
 | Title : Delaware County Flooding
 | Date  : 09 Oct 06:31 AM
 | Votes : Good: 16   Bad: 3
 +----------------------------------------------

The featured map is of stage4 rainfall estimates from Sunday over portions of Northeastern Iowa.  Delaware County is shown in the middle of the image with rainfall estimates over 3 inches for a good portion of the county.  Locations within that area reported in excess of <a href="http://iowa.cocorahs.org/map.phtml?extents=200000%2C4400000%2C710000%2C4900000&zoom=-2&month=10&day=8&year=2007&var=pday&res=640x480&layers%5B%5D=bogus&layers%5B%5D=counties&layers%5B%5D=cities&layers%5B%5D=roads&img.x=498&img.y=180">5 inches</a> thanks to very efficient rain producers <a href="http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=comprad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=12&interval=15&year=2007&month=10&day=7&hour=15&minute=0">training</a> over the same area.  The result is <a href="http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=dvn&storyid=10491&source=0">October flooding</a> in cities such as Manchester.  A 5 inch daily rainfall event is extremely rare for <i>October</i>, with the last known event reported on <a href="http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/GIS/apps/coop/plot.phtml?source=qc&var=precip&year=1973&month=10&day=11&sitesearch=mesonet.agron.iastate.edu&q=">11 October 1973</a>.

> NWS Watch/Warning Summary
*** Products issued on 09 Oct 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   10    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


> Network Metrics

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 Iowa ASOS            Reporting Stations: 15  Obs Received: 361
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  80.96 [01:53 PM] BRL   BURLINGTON
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  44.06 [10:53 PM] SPW   SPENCER
 High Dew Point[F]   :  50.00 [11:52 AM] CID   CEDAR RAPIDS
                     :  50.00 [09:53 AM] BRL   BURLINGTON
                     :  50.00 [11:53 AM] OTM   OTTUMWA
 Peak Gust[knots]    :  33.00 [03:53 PM] MCW   MASON CITY
 Max Rainfall [inch] :   0.05 [        ] CID   CEDAR RAPIDS
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 Iowa AWOS            Reporting Stations: 40  Obs Received: 7394
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  81.00 [01:36 PM] EOK   KEOKUK MUNI
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  44.60 [05:55 AM] CWI   CLINTON
                     :  44.60 [07:16 AM] MPZ   None
                     :  44.60 [11:35 PM] SHL   None
 High Dew Point[F]   :  54.00 [11:36 AM] PEA   PELLA
 Low Dew Point[F]    :  30.00 [04:16 PM] TNU   NEWTON MUNI
 Peak Gust[knots]    :  35.00 [03:46 PM] OLZ   OELWEIN
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 Iowa RWIS            Reporting Stations: 56  Obs Received: 7537
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  80.60 [02:35 PM] RCBI4 Council Bluffs (I-80)
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  42.60 [10:46 PM] RSYI4 Sibley
 High Dew Point[F]   :  58.30 [06:05 AM] RCBI4 Council Bluffs (I-80)
 Low Dew Point[F]    :  25.50 [03:59 PM] RMCI4 Mason City (I-35)
 Peak Gust[knots]    :  37.00 [03:02 PM] RSBI4 Steamboat Rock (US20)
                     :  37.00 [01:09 PM] RMCI4 Mason City (I-35)
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 KCCI SchoolNet       Reporting Stations: 69  Obs Received: 87916
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  80.00 [03:23 PM] SBMI4 Bloomfield
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  46.00 [09:43 PM] SAGI4 Algona
                     :  46.00 [09:26 PM] SBKI4 Belmond
                     :  46.00 [09:49 PM] SMAI4 Marshalltown
                     : 2 Other Duplicates Skipped
 High Dew Point[F]   :  75.00 [01:10 PM] SOSI4 Osceola
 Low Dew Point[F]    :  29.00 [09:00 AM] SLMI4 Latimer
 Peak Gust[knots]    :  34.76 [04:31 PM] SBRI4 Brooklyn
 Max Rainfall [inch] :   0.05 [        ] SCEI4 Centerville
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 KIMT SchoolNet       Reporting Stations: 26  Obs Received: 34657
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  63.00 [01:41 PM] SKWI4 Kanawha
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  43.00 [11:45 PM] SGMM5 Grand Meadow
 High Dew Point[F]   :  51.00 [06:49 AM] SKGM5 Rochester (Kellogg)
                     :  51.00 [08:25 AM] SFCM5 Preston
                     :  51.00 [08:08 AM] SGMM5 Grand Meadow
 Low Dew Point[F]    :  33.00 [12:18 PM] SCQI4 Cresco
                     :  33.00 [01:40 PM] SCCI4 Charles City
 Peak Gust[knots]    :  34.00 [02:49 PM] SGMM5 Grand Meadow
 Max Rainfall [inch] :   1.16 [        ] SGMM5 Grand Meadow
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 KELO WeatherNet      Reporting Stations: 44  Obs Received: 24868
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  72.00 [04:25 PM] SRAS2 Rapid City
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  39.00 [07:43 AM] SABS2 Aberdeen
                     :  39.00 [07:18 AM] SWTS2 Watertown
                     :  39.00 [07:51 AM] BHHS2 Britton
 High Dew Point[F]   :  55.00 [02:51 PM] SLKS2 Clear Lake
 Low Dew Point[F]    : -23.00 [10:50 PM] SHII4 Hull
 Peak Gust[knots]    :  32.15 [12:06 AM] KKAS2 Kadoka
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 Iowa NWS COOP        Reporting Stations: 81  Obs Received: 530
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  76.00 [        ] MSTI4 MUSCATINE 2 N
                     :  76.00 [        ] MTAI4 Mount Ayr
                     :  76.00 [        ] LENI4 LEON 6 ESE
                     : 6 Other Duplicates Skipped
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  40.00 [        ] SPRI4 SPIRIT LAKE
 Max Rainfall [inch] :   0.00 [        ] CRCI4 Cresco
                     :   0.00 [        ] FYTI4 FAYETTE
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 Misc Stations        Reporting Stations: 3  Obs Received: 662
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 High Air Temp[F]    :  75.00 [12:48 PM] RAWNSM Neal Smith
 Low Air Temp[F]     :  45.40 [09:08 AM] OT0002 ISU | AGRONOMY HALL
 High Dew Point[F]   :  56.00 [12:48 PM] RAWNSM Neal Smith
 Low Dew Point[F]    :  40.00 [12:48 PM] RAWDES Desoto

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