Polk County Rainfall
Date: 16 Jun 05:41 AM
Votes: Good: 14
Bad: 0 Abstain: 0
Daily afternoon showers and thunderstorms driven by the heating of the day continued this past weekend. Due to weak winds aloft, these storms tend to be pulse while slowly drifting. The result is to create complex patterns of rainfall as shown by the featured map presenting MRMS estimates on Sunday for Polk County, Iowa. Within the county, you can find estimated values ranging from zero to greater than 1.5 inches.
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.| Summary | By WFO | Watches | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | US | IA | ARX | DVN | DMX | OAX | FSD | US |
| Tornado | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Svr Tstorm | 221 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 13 | 2 |
| Flash Flood | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | --- |
ARX = LaCrosse, WI DVN = Davenport, IA DMX = Des Moines, IA OAX = Omaha, NE FSD = Sioux Falls, SD
SVR+TOR Warnings Issued: 252 Verified: 112 [44.4%] Polygon Size Versus County Size [22.2%] Average Perimeter Ratio [25.8%] Percentage of Warned Area Verified (15km) [16.5%] Average Storm Based Warning Size [1878 sq km] Probability of Detection(higher is better) [0.70] False Alarm Ratio (lower is better) [0.56] Critical Success Index (higher is better) [0.37]