Flood Watch

NWS Des Moines IA · US

Updated

Details

Flood Watch issued September 15 at 8:59AM CDT until September 16 at 1:00PM CDT by NWS Des Moines IA

Issued: 2026-09-15 08:59:00 -0500
Onset: 2026-09-15 08:59:00 -0500
Expires: 2026-09-16 05:00:00 -0500
Category: Meteorological
Urgency: Future
Severity: Severe
Certainty: Possible
Response: Prepare

Description

What

Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible.

Where

Portions of central and southern Iowa.

When

Through Wednesday afternoon.

Impacts

Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.

Additional details

- Light to moderate rain will fall this morning becoming a bit less common this afternoon. However, heavy rainfall is forecast to move back into the area late Tuesday night into Wednesday, especially over far southern Iowa.

Instructions

For the latest stream observations and forecasts refer to weather.gov/desmoines/water.

Affected areas

Carroll
Greene
Boone
Story
Marshall
Tama
Audubon
Guthrie
Dallas
Polk
Jasper
Poweshiek
Cass
Adair
Madison
Warren
Marion
Adams
Union
Clarke
Lucas
Taylor
Ringgold
Decatur
Wayne

Public contact

Issuer: NWS Des Moines IA
Website: http://www.weather.gov

Message record

Received: 2026-09-15 14:00:11Z
CAP status: Actual
CAP message type: Update
Lifecycle: Updated
Source: NWWS-OI
Feed: NWWS
Recovered: No

CAP routing and identity

ULID: 01M2JNWFEY664XQY2C77SHN1S7
Identifier: urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e2384fd879c4f3c3e87d86fef5938f3ddf00d46c.002.1
Sender: w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
Scope: Public
CAP source: 211803 v2.3.0
Handling codes: IPAWSv1.0
Issuing office: NWS Des Moines IA
AWIPS ID: CAPDMX
NWWS sequence: nwws_processor.2690
WMO heading: XOUS53
WMO data type: CAP alert message XML (XO)
WMO geography: United States (US)
WMO bulletin number: 53

References

Identifier: urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.0ec0d724aa7419669c62177ef3e4de245fa1b4c8.001.1
Sender: w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
Sent: 2026-09-15T03:57:00-05:00

Event codes

Name	Value
SAME	FFA
NationalWeatherService	FAA

Parameters

Name	Value
AWIPSidentifier	FFADMX
WMOidentifier	WGUS63 KDMX 151359
NWSheadline	FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
BLOCKCHANNEL	EAS
BLOCKCHANNEL	NWEM
EAS-ORG	WXR
VTEC	/O.CON.KDMX.FA.A.0013.000000T0000Z-260916T1800Z/
eventEndingTime	2026-09-16T13:00:00-05:00
BLOCKCHANNEL	CMAS
expiredReferences	w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.192fe0a99e97657cfda64edd8520b15c95abeb4f.002.1,2026-09-14T11:24:00-05:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.192fe0a99e97657cfda64edd8520b15c95abeb4f.001.1,2026-09-14T11:24:00-05:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e5587cbcdcc27f703e1457bc03ea2cad5d10260e.001.1,2026-09-14T05:44:00-05:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.fa8a314b60c96ba7c9a03c6c802949ec34798d3e.001.1,2026-09-13T20:19:00-05:00

Locations

Location data

Carroll
Greene
Boone
Story
Marshall
Tama
Audubon
Guthrie
Dallas
Polk
Jasper
Poweshiek
Cass
Adair
Madison
Warren
Marion
Adams
Union
Clarke
Lucas
Taylor
Ringgold
Decatur
Wayne

Name	Value
SAME	019027
SAME	019073
SAME	019015
SAME	019169
SAME	019127
SAME	019171
SAME	019009
SAME	019077
SAME	019049
SAME	019153
SAME	019099
SAME	019157
SAME	019029
SAME	019001
SAME	019121
SAME	019181
SAME	019125
SAME	019003
SAME	019175
SAME	019039
SAME	019117
SAME	019173
SAME	019159
SAME	019053
SAME	019185
UGC	IAZ045
UGC	IAZ046
UGC	IAZ047
UGC	IAZ048
UGC	IAZ049
UGC	IAZ050
UGC	IAZ057
UGC	IAZ058
UGC	IAZ059
UGC	IAZ060
UGC	IAZ061
UGC	IAZ062
UGC	IAZ070
UGC	IAZ071
UGC	IAZ072
UGC	IAZ073
UGC	IAZ074
UGC	IAZ081
UGC	IAZ082
UGC	IAZ083
UGC	IAZ084
UGC	IAZ092
UGC	IAZ093
UGC	IAZ094
UGC	IAZ095