Weather Alerts For West Bend, IA

# HEADLINE -------------------- EXTREME HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING # DETAILS -------------------- WHAT Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values above 100 degrees. WHERE Much of Iowa. WHEN Until 9 PM CDT this evening. IMPACTS Heat related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat and high humidity events. ADDITIONAL DETAILS Extreme heat will persist through much of next week, potentially including the 4th of July weekend. ISSUED AT Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 4:39 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Des Moines IA HEADER URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Take extra precautions when outside. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing. Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning or evening. Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Carroll, Audubon, Calhoun, Cass, Crawford, Emmet, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac Including the cities of Lake View, Lake City, Emmetsburg, Schaller, Exira, Manson, Odebolt, Sac City, Gilmore City, Laurens, Algona, Atlantic, Pomeroy, Fonda, Estherville, Rockwell City, Wall Lake, Audubon, Early, Carroll, Rolfe, Humboldt, Denison, and Pocahontas

# SUMMARY -------------------- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 421 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN IOWA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA KOSSUTH WINNEBAGO WORTH IN NORTHWEST IOWA EMMET PALO ALTO THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALGONA, EMMETSBURG, ESTHERVILLE, FOREST CITY, LAKE MILLS, MANLY, AND NORTHWOOD. # DETAILS -------------------- PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE - SCATTERED DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED SIGNIFICANT GUSTS TO 75 MPH POSSIBLE. ISOLATED LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE. - PROBABILITY TABLE: PROB OF 2 OR MORE TORNADOES : 10% PROB OF 1 OR MORE STRONG /EF2-EF5/ TORNADOES : <02% PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE WIND EVENTS : 50% PROB OF 1 OR MORE WIND EVENTS >= 75 MPH : 30% PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE HAIL EVENTS : 30% PROB OF 1 OR MORE HAIL EVENTS >= 2 INCHES : 20% PROB OF 6 OR MORE COMBINED SEVERE HAIL/WIND EVENTS : 80% MEAN STORM MOTION /MPH/ : NE 50 ISSUED AT Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 2:59 AM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 421

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 PORTIONS OF THE MIDWEST AND CENTRAL PLAINS SUMMARY Severe thunderstorms are expected this evening across the Dakotas, Upper Midwest and Middle Missouri Valley, including damaging winds, large hail and a few tornadoes. Northern Plains and Midwest Thunderstorm activity has initiated across eastern Nebraska near the cold front this evening, with additional areas of towering cu noted into northern Kansas. As the low-level jet strengthens and ascent increases with the approaching wave, it is likely additional thunderstorm development will occur into the evening. Guidance suggests that a mix of supercells and multi-cell clusters will emerge and spread east northeastward into far southeastern SD/northwestern IA and western MN. Strong to extreme instability and steep lapse rates downstream will likely support potential for damaging wind, with some significant gusts 75+ mph possible. Large to very large hail will also be possible where supercells can maintain semi-discrete mode. An upgrade to Enhanced was made with this update to account for this potential. See MCD#1386 for additional information on the short term severe potential. Further north across eastern North Dakota into western/central Minnesota near the surface low/warm front interface, potential will continue for supercells capable of all hazards including large hail, damaging wind, and strong tornadoes. See MCD#1387 for more information. Southwest Texas to the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles Thunderstorm activity continues across southwestern Texas into the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles near the dryline. Very warm temperatures and dry mixed boundary layer conditions will continue to pose some potential for damaging winds until sunset this evening. Georgia into northern Florida Peninsula A cluster of thunderstorms continues to move southwestward across southern/central Georgia this evening. Ahead of this cluster, hot and moderately unstable conditions will continue to pose potential for water loaded downdrafts that my produce strong to severe winds.