A National Weather Service Preliminary Storm Survey team will head to Pella today (Monday), to assess the duration, path and intensity of a tornado that touched down near Pella, Sunday evening.The data will include a damage assessment. No injuries were reported in connection with the storm. The results and conclusions of the survey will be completed and released by the NWS on their website, sometime later today.

Hail the size of eggs fell five-miles north/northeast of Afton at around 4:30-p.m. Sunday. Hail ranging in size from a half-dollar to ping pong balls fell over parts of Poweshiek and Decatur Counties, Sunday evening. Pea-to- ping pong ball-size hail fell over Decatur County. A farm grain bin was tossed onto the middle of Highway 69 near Leon, in Decatur County.  Heavy rain (2.35″) was reported in Warren County, as storms developed over southern and southeastern Iowa.

Pella Tornado photo by Robert Carruthers via the National Weather Service’ Facebook page.