Weather Alerts For Montpelier, IA

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- A line of strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Scott, western Clinton, northeastern Muscatine, eastern Cedar and southeastern Jones Counties through 615 AM CDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 527 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Olin to near Lowden to near Durant. Movement was east at 35 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Winds in excess of 40 mph and minor flooding. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could cause minor tree limb damage and blow around unsecured objects. Slowing or redirecting of traffic due to ponding or flowing water. Closure of waterfront access due to flooding. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Davenport, Bettendorf, Durant, Eldridge, DeWitt, Walcott, Long Grove, Lowden, Wheatland, Grand Mound, Delmar, Lost Nation, Calamus, Bennett, Donahue, McCausland, Welton, Toronto, Clarence, and Dixon. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS Interstate 80 in Iowa between mile markers 275 and 301. Interstate 280 near mile marker 1. ISSUED AT Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 5:27 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Quad Cities IA/IL HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Cedar IA, Clinton IA, Jones IA, Muscatine IA, Scott IA

# HEADLINE -------------------- FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING # DETAILS -------------------- WHAT Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. WHERE Portions of east central, northeast, and southeast Iowa, including the following areas, in east central Iowa, Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn and Muscatine. In northeast Iowa, Buchanan, Delaware and Dubuque. In southeast Iowa, Des Moines, Henry IA, Jefferson, Keokuk, Louisa and Washington. WHEN Through this evening. IMPACTS Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. ADDITIONAL DETAILS - Additional rounds of slow moving storms today over a saturated ground to bring an elevated risk for flash flooding. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood ISSUED AT Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 1:57 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Quad Cities IA IL HEADER URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED | Flood Watch # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Muscatine, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry IA, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Linn, Louisa, Washington Including the cities of Manchester, Vinton, Tipton, Wapello, Fairfield, Independence, Burlington, Iowa City, Anamosa, Mount Pleasant, Marengo, Washington, Cedar Rapids, Sigourney, Dubuque, and Muscatine

Closest strike: 3.08 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA INTO WESTERN IOWA SUMMARY Scattered damaging gusts will continue across portions of the Mid Atlantic and the central/northern Plains. More isolated to scattered severe storms will also continue across portions of the High Plains to the northern Rockies. Discussion Several clusters of widely scattered thunderstorms in many different regimes are ongoing across portions of the central and northern Plains into the Midwest and across the Mid-Atlantic. The greatest threat through the remainder of the evening will be for damaging wind, with a few instances of large hail and perhaps a tornado from the Plains to the Midwest. Across the central/northern Plains, activity is mainly tied to lee troughing and broad ascent from the mid-level shortwave trough. A few embedded supercells will pose potential for large hail through the evening but the main threat is shifting to become damaging wind, with several clusters attempting to grow upscale. The more focused corridor of severe wind threat through the evening will likely extend from southeastern Nebraska into northern Kansas, where a more robust line has developed amid a strongly unstable air mass. Deep layer shear decreases with southward extent into Kansas, however, storms may be driven by cold pool dynamics south and eastward through the evening. Across portions of southern South Dakota, western Nebraska, and eastern Colorado, a few more discrete supercell clusters are ongoing. This region will be where the greatest short term risk will be for large to very large hail, particularly across western Nebraska into southwestern South Dakota. Across portions of the Midwest into the Great Lakes, a cluster of storms is moving across northern Illinois towards the Chicago Metro. This line is tracking along a MLCAPE gradient that extends across northern Illinois into northern Indiana/southern Michigan. Storms will likely advance eastward along this gradient through the evening, with potential for damaging winds. Another robust line is moving eastward through New York City and northern New Jersey. This has produced a swath of measured severe wind and continues eastward towards the coast.