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Another nice cell overnight boosted my 3-day total to 1.60". Much, if not all, of the action over the next 24+ hours should be north.

After becoming quite dry again recently, I picked up 0.51" of rain yesterday and another 0.78" this morning. We may get more later.

I'd say our brief drought is pretty much over. My August rain total is 4.26" after two good soakers this week. The lawns have greened up.

I received another 1.53" of rain this morning. We had lightning and thunder for 2-3 hours, the best of the season. My 3-day total is 3.14". While there was little wind during the rain, strong wind (40+ mph) at the back edge caused garden damage and blew bird feeders down.

Yes, I am experiencing the same thing. Scrolling and typing are very laggy and very annoying. I hope it can be fixed.

We were in a good spot this morning. The line intensified a bit as it moved in and then a big rain shield filled in behind the line. I finished with a great 1.61" of rain. The far north side of Cedar Rapids received nickel size hail, but I did not see any. The wind gusted to 30-40 for a bit, but it wasn't bad. This is the first time all summer an expected heavy rain event verified. OT: About a week ago, this site(only this site) suddenly became very slow & laggy for me. It makes typing posts difficult. Any idea what the issue could be? OT Update: There is a thread about this on the home page that has a few posts, but that's it.

Models are suggesting the gulf could perk up in 7-10 days.

COD is down, but there's an odd quirk. While I cannot make any fresh connections to the site, the two radar loops I had running yesterday when COD went down are still working and continue to refresh.

I just saw a funnel cloud from my house... my first ever. I was outside at the end of my street, in an open area, when I saw what appeared to be a funnel dipping out of a small cell that had just popped. It drifted south and became better defined for 5+ minutes, then dissipated just as the sirens went off. It apparently came 3/4 of the way to the ground. The NWS is asking if anyone saw it touch down. Here in the city my view of the horizon was obstructed .

The dewpoint has really shot up today. It is now 75º. There is no wind at all, so it's pretty sultry outside, even though clouds kept the temp down a bit today. Monday's rain event is now not looking so great for much of Iowa. This summer has been a broken record.

Fortunately, last night's line of storms remained solid a bit longer than models suggested. I picked up 0.63" of rain. The northeast side of CR got over an inch. It was nice to experience rain, wind, and lightning/thunder again. There has been far too little of it this year.

The SPC is expecting the MCS to possibly strengthen this afternoon as central and eastern Iowa heat up and destabilize.

Yeah, the CAMs insisted the morning MCS would crap out as it entered nw Iowa. So far it is holding together very well.

Same here. I was outside taking a hummingbird feeder down when the gust front hit. I just held on.

The HRRR can be a good model, but it appears to be terrible with these low-shear, cold-pool-driven MCSs. The model struggles to see them and refuses to keep them going beyond the first couple hours of each run.

I like DST.

And the very next run has the MCS tracking from Missouri to the Ohio Valley.

My county was severe-warned, but the wind maxed at only 30-35 mph.

Yeah. While the weather has been pleasant and excellent for the garden, it's tough to watch our peak storm month waste away.

Well, so much for that. The severe potential has been shifted south and west. We've been downgraded.

Tuesday evening looks pretty active over here. We're in the enhanced area now, but Des Moines thinks a further upgrade is possible.

There is a strong tornado on ground just sw of Iowa City. KGAN has their chaser live right next to it, live on air. This is awesome.

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A hail core passed just south of Cedar Rapids. I received a bit of heavy rain, but no hail.

There have been several nickel-size hail reports so far. Cedar Rapids was just put in a warning for the cell approaching from the sw.