Friday Storms!

Mt. Pleasant received over an inch of rain as recorded by the Raindrop App in the past 24 hours.  Rain totals vary by area in the KILJ listening area, but most were close to an inch of rain or just over. Heavy rainfall in Mt. Pleasant on Friday night caused some streets to flood.   The intersection of N. Main Street and W. Franklin North of Mt. Pleasant was impassable around 6pm last night, and there was flooding on Lincoln Street north of the railroad tracks. The National Weather Service issued multiple tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings and watches for portions of Henry County and the surrounding area with heavy rain and gusting winds making travel difficult.  Southeast Iowa was in a tornado and/or severe thunderstorms warnings and watches starting at 12:40pm on Friday afternoon with the last of the storms moving out of the area in the late evening.