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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFAR. WITH THIS CURRENT SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH, IT SOUNDS LIKE CURRENTLY, WEATHER WISE, WE HAVE NOTHING SEVERE ONGOING, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS HERE ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA, WE HAVE THAT ONE LITTLE CLUSTER, SOME STORMS IN NORTHEASTERN PARTS OF THE STATE. A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ON, WE SHOWED YOU A COUPLE OF PICTURES OF SOME HAIL UP TOWARDS HARDIN COUNTY. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE UP THAT WAY HERE JUST TO THE NORTH OF HUBBARD. CARROLL GAVE US WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE BOARDS ON HER DECK OR SOMETHING OUTSIDE HER HOUSE AS A REFERENCE POINT. SO LET\u2019S ASSUME IT\u2019S ABOUT FOUR INCHES ACROSS. LOOKS LIKE WE AT LEAST GOT MAYBE SOME MAYBE UP TO PING PONG. GOLF BALL SIZE, AT LEAST HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL HERE FROM A COUPLE OF STONES. WE DID HAVE OTHER REPORTS OF PING PONG TO A GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL UP IN HARDIN AND GRUNDY COUNTIES. A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ON PART OF OUR TORNADO WATCH, WHICH STILL GOES UNTIL 10:00 THIS EVENING, AT LEAST AT THIS POINT. ALTHOUGH AT THIS POINT I WOULD SAY IF YOU ARE, LET\u2019S SAY, WEST OF I-35 FOR SURE, YOU\u2019RE PROBABLY NOT SEEING ANY MORE SEVERE WEATHER. ANY STORMS AT ALL? MOST LIKELY THE AIR IS STARTING TO DRY OUT AT THE GROUND LEVEL IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE. STILL LOTS OF STORMS IN NORTHEASTERN IOWA. AND THEN WE\u2019VE GOT SORT OF A LITTLE SMATTERING OF SCATTERED NON-SEVERE STORMS AT THIS POINT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF IOWA. ONE JUST MOVED THROUGH AMES A SHORT TIME AGO. IT\u2019S NOW NORTH OF NEVADA, OVER TOWARDS ZERO. AND ROLAND AND COLESBURG THAT\u2019S GOING NORTHEAST UP INTO HARDIN COUNTY. YOU\u2019RE GOING TO GET ANOTHER STORM THIS DIRECTION TOO. THAT\u2019S GOING TOWARDS NEW PROVIDENCE. AND THEN ELDORA JUST LIGHTNING. THUNDER THOUGH. NOTHING AND SOME RAINFALL FOR SURE, BUT NOTHING SEVERE AT THIS POINT. OVER TOWARDS TAMA AND THEN INTO BENTON COUNTY, IOWA COUNTY BACK HERE TO THE WEST OF MONTEZUMA AND SOUTH OF GRINNELL IN POWESHIEK COUNTY. ALSO A STORM THAT ONE LOOKS A LITTLE BIT STRONGER, BUT AGAIN, NOT SEVERE FOR THE TIME BEING. AND THEN OFF TO THE SOUTH, ONE HEADED TOWARDS OTTUMWA. AND THEN IT PROBABLY WILL GO THROUGH THERE INTO NORTHEASTERN WAPELLO COUNTY AND THEN EAST OF CORYDON AND ALLERTON SOUTHEAST, I SHOULD SAY THAT\u2019S GOING TO HEAD EASTWARD TOWARDS THE CENTERVILLE AREA AND LAKE RAPID LAKE HERE. BEFORE TOO LONG, ALL THOSE NON-SEVERE FOR THE TIME BEING, YOU CAN SEE THE MODELING TRYING TO DEPICT THAT SORT OF BROKEN LINE OF SOME STORMS IN EAST, CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN PARTS OF IOWA, NOT QUITE AS WIDESPREAD OR THAT STRONG THOUGH, SO THAT ACTIVITY MOVES EAST THROUGH THE EVENING. WE GO PAST SUNSET. PROBABLY NOT MUCH GOING ON. WE\u2019LL WATCH FOR A LITTLE BIT OF REDEVELOPMENT FROM SOME OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY, I SHOULD SAY. LATE EVENING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 10:00 TO MIDNIGHT, THAT SORT OF THING, INTO PARTS OF THE STATE. ALTHOUGH THIS IS LESS LIKELY TO BE SEVERE, JUST SOME OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY INTO TOMORROW MORNING. THAT\u2019S HOW WE\u2019LL START OUR WEDNESDAY. AND THEN AS WE GO INTO WEDNESDAY, THERE IS ANOTHER RENEWED THREAT FOR SOME SEVERE WEATHER HERE. IT\u2019S NOT AS HIGH OF A RISK AS WE HAD EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON OR IS ONGOING RIGHT NOW. NORTHEAST IOWA, NOT THE LEVEL THREE RISK, BUT FOR NOW, JUST A LEVEL TWO RISK CENTRAL AND THEN INTO EASTERN IOWA. ONCE AGAIN, WE\u2019RE PROBABLY WHERE STORMS WILL START AND THEN THEY\u2019LL MOVE EASTWARD. SO AS SOON AS MAYBE THREE OR MORE LIKELY 4:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, AND THEN THEY\u2019LL ZOOM OUT OF HERE PROBABLY BEFORE TEN, BUT JUST IN CASE UNTIL 10:00. LARGE HAIL THREAT, MAYBE SOME DAMAGING WINDS. IF THE STORM GETS STRONG ENOUGH, MAYBE A TORNADO, BUT EVERYTHING KIND OF HAS TO GO JUST WRONG FOR THAT TO HAPPEN. SO THAT\u2019S WEDNESDAY\u2019S THREAT. IT LOOKS MORE WIDESPREAD THAT WE\u2019LL HAVE THUNDERSTORMS, INCLUDING SEVERE ONES ON FRIDAY ACTUALLY LATER THIS WEEK. SO THOSE ARE YOUR TWO DAYS TO WATCH FOR ANY FURTHER SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. SO AS YOU GO TOWARDS TOMORROW DURING THE LUNCH TIME HOUR, AS MORE CLOUDS KIND OF SPREADING ACROSS IOWA, NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF THUNDERSTORMS, WE\u2019RE GOING TO SEE A LITTLE SUBTLE SORT OF LOW PRESSURE CENTER DEVELOP OUT TOWARDS OMAHA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS. NUDGE A FRONT INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE HERE, DRIER AIR OUT JUST A LITTLE BIT CLEARER SKIES SOME AND THEN TRY TO PRODUCE SOME STORMS AHEAD. A LITTLE BOUNDARY IN THIS PARTICULAR SIMULATION, THIS IS KIND OF TOWARDS HIGHWAY 14 I GUESS, OR SO DOWN TOWARDS THE KNOXVILLE AND INTO CHARITON AND CORYDON AREAS. AND THEN THAT MOVES OFF TO THE EAST AND STRENGTHENS AS WE GO THROUGH THE EVENING. SO THAT\u2019S YOUR MAIN WINDOW OF TIME LATER IN THE AFTERNOON, EVENING FOR SOME SEVERE STORMS ON WEDNESDAY. THEN WE\u2019LL HAVE A DRY DAY THURSDAY. FRIDAY BRINGS US SOME HEAT, SOME WIND, AND THEN SOME AFTERNOON STORMS. THESE LOOK LIKE THEY\u2019LL PROBABLY BE MORE WIDESPREAD THAN WHAT WE\u2019VE SEEN LATELY. AND THEN WE\u2019LL COOL THINGS DOWN ON SATURDAY. CLOUDS LINGERING, AND THEN WE\u2019LL HAVE TEMPERATURES ONLY AROUND 50 WITH SOME GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS. CALM THINGS DOWN A LITTL\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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LIVE WEATHER UPDATES: Severe weather rolls through central, eastern Iowa<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tActive weather is ahead for Iowa this week, including a few different opportunities for severe storms.Here’s what to expect:Another round of strong to severe storms in central and eastern Iowa Tuesday afternoonChances return Wednesday, especially for southern and eastern IowaFriday brings the final chance for strong to severe storms to the stateInteractive Radar | Weather AlertsTracking severe weather in central IowaKCCI’s Abigail Kurten in Storm Chaser tracking storms in Grundy CountySevere thunderstorm warningThe NWS has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of Hardin, Franklin, Grundy and Butler counties until 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. Trained weather spotters have located a storm capable of 60 mph winds and quarter sized hail.Tornado watch in effect until 10 p.m.The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for much of central and eastern Iowa until 10 p.m. Tuesday.The watch includes Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton, Dallas, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin, Howard, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Linn, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Muscatine, Polk, Poweshiek, Scott, Story, Tama, Warren, Washington and Winneshiek counties.Viewers submit photos of hail and storm cloudsStorms likely Tuesday in central and eastern IowaA stalled out front cutting across the state this afternoon will likely be the focus for storm development by midafternoon into the evening hours. Strong to severe storms will be possible near and south of the front.South of the boundary, highs will surge into the mid-80s with high humidity levels as well. This will provide plenty of fuel for any storms that form today.Storms could form as early as 2 to 4pm near and just east of I-35. These storms will quickly intensify, and will bring the potential for very large, damaging hail, high winds, and some tornado risk.The main question for this afternoon remains just how many storms actually fire up. It is possible that only a couple of storms actually develop, which would keep the severe risk rather isolated. However, any storms that develop could be very intense, so pay close attention to development this afternoon.As storms push into eastern Iowa, they will likely grow in intensity. This is where the very large hail risk, potentially to around 3 inches in size, and the tornado risk will be highest. An intense tornado is possible if storms are able to take advantage of all the ingredients available today.A second area to watch is southern Iowa later tonight. Increasing southerly flow may help to develop an additional wave of storms spreading from south to north. With these storms occurring overnight, the severe risk is low. However, heavy rainfall and some small hail will be possible.Another chance for storms comes WednesdayStrong storms are possible again Wednesday, with a low chance for a few storms in the morning, and another round of strong to severe storms possible by the afternoon and evening.A stalled out front will still be sitting across parts of the state, and will be the focus for storm development once again going into the afternoon and evening hours. However, where that front sets up is still a little in question, as the Tuesday storms will have an influence on how far north or south it is able to move.More severe weather, including damaging winds, hail and tornadoes, are possible, but it will depend exactly what unfolds the day before on Tuesday.There still is the possibility Wednesday’s system moves fast enough that central Iowa avoids any storms at all.\u00bb Subscribe to KCCI’s YouTube page\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Active weather is ahead for Iowa this week, including a few different opportunities for severe storms.<\/p>\n

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