Excessive Heat in Clay, Iowa

Excessive Heat July 27, 2025 · Clay, Iowa

What the National Weather Service wrote

Dangerous heat index readings reached an afternoon peak as high as 106 degrees near Spencer.

The wider storm

Beneath an expansive and strong, flat ridge aloft, extreme surface-based moisture returned near a diffuse warm frontal boundary on July 26 and lasted into the afternoon of July 28. While this moisture and heat would eventually fuel the derecho during the evening hours of July 28, dangerous heat indices from 105 to 120 degrees were common.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1288604. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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