Flash Flood Warning for Southwestern Dallas County in Central Iowa
If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services now.
For real-time, official alerts and instructions for your exact location, check weather.gov (US), weather.gc.ca (Canada), the Met Office (UK), or the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) as applicable. This article is a data summary, not a substitute for the issuing agency's live warning.
Areazine synthesizes this NWS weather alert directly from NOAA's official public data feed. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for parts of central and southwestern Iowa until 9:00 AM CDT on September 15, 2026.
The weather record, at a glance
- Record type
- Flash Flood Warning
- Affected area
- Central Iowa
- Issued
- September 15, 2026
- Issuing authority
- NWS Des Moines IA
Flood notices turn on location and timing. Treat the named area as this record's scope; do not assume nearby counties, parishes, or waterways were included.
Record status: publication date is recent, but current status is not stored on this page. Check the issuing agency's live warning service before acting because warnings can be updated, narrowed, or cancelled.
Alert Details
Flash Flood Warning issued by NWS Des Moines IA. Effective from 3:01 AM CDT September 15, 2026 until 9:00 AM CDT September 15, 2026.
Affected Areas
Southwestern Dallas County in central Iowa, northwestern Madison County in south central Iowa, northern Adair County in southwestern Iowa, northern Cass County in southwestern Iowa, southern Audubon County in west central Iowa, southern Guthrie County in west central Iowa. Specific locations include Atlantic, Stuart, Earlham, Anita, Exira, Redfield, Adair, Dexter, Casey, Diamondhead Lake, Menlo, Linden, Brayton, Marne, Wiota, Anita Municipal Airport, Lake Anita State Park and Atlantic Municipal Airport. This includes Interstate 80 between mile markers 100 and 106 and between mile markers 50 and 99.
What You Should Do
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. For the latest stream observations and forecasts refer to weather.gov/desmoines/water.
Expected Conditions
Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicate 1 to 3 inches of rain have fallen with additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch possible. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
Timeline
Alert effective 2026-09-15T03:01:00-05:00, expires and ends 2026-09-15T09:00:00-05:00.
Original source: NOAA Official Notice ↗
Related Weather Alerts
All Weather Alerts →Similar notices nationwide by length or severity timing 8
Two Areazine-derived peer sets for this NWS weather alert: nearest notices by body length and by same severity near the same agency date. Peers come from other categories so they are not the same-feed Related list above.
Similar body length
Nearest notices by article body length (1,298 characters here).
Similar severity timing
Same severity (high) notices issued closest in time to September 15, 2026.
Common Questions
Common questions about this NWS weather alert.