Indianola, IA Weather Forecast
Warren County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Indianola, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
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Indianola, IA at a glance
Indianola is home to about 16,043 people in Warren County, across 11 square miles. It ranks 30th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Norwalk, 11 miles away.
- County
- Warren County
- Population
- 16,043 2023 est.
- Land area
- 11 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,403
- Forecast point
- 41.3630°N, 93.5655°W
How well can the network see Indianola?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDMX (Des Moines, IA), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,600 ft above Indianola. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Indianola show up clearly. Indianola is closer to its radar than 75% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KDSM (Des Moines Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Indianola
- Norwalk, IA11 mi
- Carlisle, IA11 mi
- Des Moines, IA15 mi
- Pleasant Hill, IA17 mi
- West Des Moines, IA17 mi
- Windsor Heights, IA18 mi
- Altoona, IA20 mi
- Clive, IA21 mi
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