Live National Weather Service alerts, NEXRAD weather radar, USGS river and stream gauges, Storm Prediction Center convective outlooks, Local Storm Reports, 5-day forecast, air quality, and severe-weather notifications for Polk County, IA (FIPS 19153) in Iowa. Free, no login, no ads.
Polk County, IA is one of the counties of Iowa covered by BloomWX. Polk County, IA has a population of approximately 493,378 (2022 estimate, US Census Bureau). The county covers 572.4 square miles of land area.
Des Moines, West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston.
Polk County, IA is served by the National Weather Service DMX forecast office for warnings, watches, advisories, and decision-support services. The same office produces the Hazardous Weather Outlook, Area Forecast Discussion, and DSS briefing packets you'll see on the BloomWX dashboard for this county.
BloomWX also covers the surrounding counties: Madison County, IA, Warren County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Marion County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Story County, IA, Boone County, IA.
BloomWX is a free weather operations dashboard for SKYWARN storm spotters, emergency management volunteers, ham radio nets, and anyone in Polk County, IA who needs the official NWS data without the consumer-app cruft. Data is pulled directly from weather.gov and refreshes every 60 seconds. Sources: National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, USGS Water Data, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Open-Meteo (Air Quality), and the Citizen Weather Observer Program.
Read the BloomWX learn library for beginner-friendly explainers on every dashboard surface, including SPC convective outlooks (TSTM/MRGL/SLGT/ENH/MDT/HIGH), NEXRAD radar, USGS flood gauges, and WPC surface analysis charts. See all Iowa county weather dashboards on BloomWX.