IEM Daily Bulletin

[Iowa Mesonet]

Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin
Data valid for 01 April 2008

> News
    No news is good news

> Yesterday's Daily Feature

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http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/features/cat.php?day=2008-04-01
 | Title : Saturated
 | Date  : 01 Apr 07:11 AM
 | Votes : Good: 25   Bad: 8
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The featured graph is of soil moisture readings from the <a href="http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/scan/">Ames SCAN</a> site.  Values around 40% indicate saturation, which is roughly how much air space there is in our soil (replaced with water when saturated).  With only an inch or so of rainfall yesterday, the soil quickly saturated.  This is a bad sign for spring as heavy rainfall will produce excessive runoff, since the soil is already "full".  It will also take a considerable stretch of warmer and drier weather before field work can begin.

> NWS Watch/Warning Summary
*** Products issued on 01 Apr 2008

             Summary +_________ By WFO ____________+  Watches 
Type         US   IA | ARX   DVN   DMX   OAX   FSD |  US 
Tornado       4    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 |   0
Svr Tstorm   41    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 |   1
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