Forecasters issued a flood watch through Thursday morning for Crawford, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties in Wisconsin and Clayton County in Iowa.
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Storms could produce widespread heavy rainfall of 1 to 3 inches, and up to 5 inches locally.Such heavy rain is capable of producing quick ponding of water in rapid runoff or in poor drainage areas. Some areas could see localized totals approaching 6 inches.
Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and El Paso along with surrounding communities will be under a flash flood watch starting at noon Tuesday through Wednesday.
A stalled front across northern Iowa and southern Wisconsin could trigger thunderstorm development overnight.
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With much of the area already near or above normal rainfall levels the last month, the weather system could cause rivers to overflow or create additional flooding problems in rural and urban locations, the weather service reported. Main threats from the storms will be hail, strong and potentially damaging wind and heavy rainfall.
