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Flood Warning

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Polk, IA

Status In Progress Started about 1 hour ago
Ends
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Severity Severe
Urgency Immediate
Certainty Likely

Details

* WHAT...Urban area and small stream flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of central Iowa, including the following county, Polk.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Expect many areas of slow moving or standing water. Areas along Fourmile Creek are of most concern.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 248 PM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated slow moving thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall across the warned area. As much as 8 to 12 inches of rain has fallen since Thursday afternoon. - Some locations that will experience flooding include... Des Moines, Ankeny, Altoona, Pleasant Hill, Bondurant, Saylorville, Adventureland Amusement Park, Prairie Meadows, Iowa State Fairgrounds, Elkhart, Alleman, Ankeny Regional Airport, Weh-Weh-Neh-Kee State Park and Margo Frankel Woods State Park.
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