Severe storms popped-up late Tuesday night and early this (Wednesday) morning across parts of western Iowa, bringing winds gusting up to 75-mph, and heavy rain. The National Weather Service reports thunderstorm winds caused power lines to fall in the Crawford County community of Schleswig just before 11-p.m.  Not long afterward, pea size hail fell, and winds blowing at an estimated 75-mph, caused tree damage at the Denison Airport.

Similar winds of 60-to 70mph caused trees to fall in the Sac County town of Lake View just before 11:30-p.m., Tuesday. Quarter-size hail fell on Aracadia at around 11:30-p.m., while winds gusted up to 65-mph.  And, just before midnight, winds estimated at 59-mph were measured by an automated weather site two-miles north/northwest of Carroll.

Early this morning, the Weather Service issued an Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory (Until 8:45-a.m.), for western Montgomery, Mills, and south central Pottawattamie Counties. Doppler radar indicated as much as 3-inches of rain had fallen over the area, causing some minor flooding.