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MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1919
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0413 AM CDT Tue Aug 11 2026

AREAS AFFECTED...much of northern and central Iowa

CONCERNING...Severe potential...Watch possible

VALID 110913Z - 111115Z

PROBABILITY OF WATCH ISSUANCE...40 percent

SUMMARY
...Developing thunderstorms may continue to evolve into a
better organized cluster through 6-8 AM CDT. Eventually, this
probably will become accompanied by increasing potential for strong
to severe surface gusts, though how soon remains uncertain.

DISCUSSION...Convection continues to increase and intensify within a
zone of stronger warm advection, along a tightening
lower/mid-tropospheric baroclinic
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