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Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
National Weather Service Des Moines, based in Johnston, Iowa, United States, [1] is a weather forecast office serving the greater Des Moines, Iowa, region [2] as part of the National Weather Service. References
Rivers across northwest Iowa experienced record flooding on Saturday after days of heavy rain ... A National Weather Service map shows extreme rainfall over the past 48 hours in northwest Iowa and ...
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
A few locations could exceed 3 inches within this band of snow in northwest Iowa near Sioux City. Des Moines can expect 1-2 inches by Friday morning. Ames might see as much as 3 inches.
The Des Moines River at Humboldt, a small city about 105 miles north of Des Moines, was forecast to crest Wednesday at 17 feet, more than a foot higher than its record in 1969, according to the ...
Operations for the Quad Cities service office of the Weather Bureau (later National Weather Service) began on May 24, 1871, as a weather service office on the third floor of the First National Bank building in Davenport, Iowa. Over the following years, the office changed location to the Masonic Temple on April 1, 1890, the second floor of the ...
The National Weather Service on Tuesday afternoon and evening issued multiple tornado warnings in parts of Iowa and Nebraska as local TV news meteorologists showed photos of large hail and spoke ...