IEM Daily Bulletin for Nov 14 2025

[daryl herzmann]

Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin for 14 November 2025

News

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IEM Code Pushes <repo,branch> on Github

Timestamp	Repository	Message	Link
Nov 13 10:57 AM	iem,main	📝 Address issues found from log review	Link
Nov 13 10:47 PM	iem,main	⬆️ Update ruff	Link
Nov 13 10:47 PM	iem,main	📝 Sundry updates and coverage increases	Link
Nov 13 10:29 PM	iem-database,main	⬆️ Update ruff	Link
Nov 13 10:30 PM	iem-database,main	✅ Add cwsu network to test data	Link

Daily Feature

Fall Season Departures
Date: 13 Nov 05:30 AM
Votes: Good: 13   Bad: 1 Abstain: 0

The weekly update to the US Drought Monitor is due to be released later this morning and likely not show much in the way of improvement to the worsening drought situation for the state. The featured map presents IEM computed precipitation departures from average since the first of September. Only a few isolated areas are indicated to be above average with large departures dominating the rest of the state. The drought situation is difficult to analyze outside of the growing season, which is during a time of year with decreased water demands but also decreased climatologies. Rewording, it is difficult to significantly increase deficits when climatology decreases with each passing day and metrics like 90 day precipitation departures will organically improve just by attrition. It would certainly be nice to get a few big rain events prior to colder temperatures and having the ground surface freeze, but the near term forecast doesn't hold much hope for that happening.

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NWS Watch/Warning Summary for 12 AM 13 Nov 2025 - 12 AM 14 Nov 2025 CST

	Summary		By WFO					Watches
Type	US	IA	ARX	DVN	DMX	OAX	FSD	US
Tornado	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Svr Tstorm	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flash Flood	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---

ARX = LaCrosse, WI DVN = Davenport, IA DMX = Des Moines, IA OAX = Omaha, NE FSD = Sioux Falls, SD

IEM Cow Report

No SVR+TOR Warnings Issued.