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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR IOWA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1120 AM CDT WED APR 6 2005

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST IOWA THIS MORNING WEAKENED BY 
MID MORNING AND BY 11 AM ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND THROUGH 
THE NORTH AND NORTHCENTRAL.  OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN WAS PRODUCED FROM 
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SPENCER AREA.  ANOTHER 
PRECIPITATION BAND MOVED NORTHWARD OVER SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST 
IOWA...BRINGING BRIEF RAINS TO THOSE LOCATIONS. THE TWO AREAS OF 
PRECIPITATION WERE FOUND ON EITHER SIDE OF A WIND SHIFT LINE 
DISSECTING THE STATE SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST. 

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST THROUGH THE 
SOUTHERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS 
SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS IOWA 
AND POINTS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME 
SMALL HAIL...BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. SHOWERS 
WILL LINGER THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST IOWA BEFORE MOVING EAST 
OVERNIGHT. A WEAK RIDGE OF SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL OVERSPREAD THE 
STATE ON THURSDAY AS CLOUDS DECREASE FROM WEST TO EAST. HIGH 
PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST OF THE REGION ON FRIDAY...ALLOWING A RETURN 
TO SOUTHERLY WINDS AND WARMER TEMPERATURES. MILD READINGS IN THE 60S 
AND 60S WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER SLOW MOVING STORM 
SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE UPPER MIDWEST LATE SUNDAY. EXPECT 
PERIODS OF SHOWERS THROUGH AT LEAST MID WEEK.

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