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Hazardous Weather outlook for western/s.w. Iowa

Weather

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

AREA COUNTIES: MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-

TODAY AND TONIGHT:

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA THIS MORNING AND
MAY CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS OVER THE
AREA AND A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES FROM WESTERN NEBRASKA
TO NORTH DAKOTA. ISOLATED STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL THIS
AFTERNOON BUT THE BETTER CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED TO
BE OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY:

MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL OVER THE AREA
WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY AS ADDITIONAL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS AND A
COLD FRONT MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE IN
PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA WITH LARGE HAIL
THE PRIMARY HAZARD.

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT…

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME TODAY OR TONIGHT.

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Hazardous Weather Outlook for parts of western/central IA

Weather

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

AREA COUNTIES: SAC-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-ADAMS-UNION-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD
533 AM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014

TODAY AND TONIGHT:  SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE ACROSS THE WEST THIS MORNING AND OVER THE ENTIRE REGION TONIGHT.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY:  THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE FORECAST TO PERSIST THROUGH THURSDAY. HOWEVER…THE OVERALL PROBABILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS LOW AT THIS TIME. IF SEVERE WEATHER DOES OCCUR…THE PERIOD OF MOST
CONCERN WOULD BE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE FAR
SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA WHERE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT…

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

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Rail car shortage may mean problems for harvest

Ag/Outdoor, News

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

Most Iowa farmers haven’t started the harvest yet but already it’s clear there will be problems with moving the grain. U-S Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says rail cars will be in short supply and he doesn’t foresee any solution coming down the tracks. “Our surface transportation board, along with our rail companies, and along with us in Washington, we’re going to have to figure out a way to create more capacity so that commodities can move,” Foxx says. Farmers need rail cars to move their crops, but many rail cars are being diverted to haul oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and Montana.

“It’s an issue we have to deal with,” Foxx says. “The Surface Transportation Board has primary responsibility for it but clearly with the proliferation of the movement of crude oil by rail, it increases competition for precious rail space.” Foxx says there’s no easy fix to the looming rail car shortage. “Even if Congress funded us tomorrow, it would still take some time to get track on the ground and things going,” Foxx says. “It’s not going to be a short-term solution but again, the Surface Transportation Board has primary responsibility for trying to work out the issues that have to do with commodities moving.”

Many blame the rail car shortage on the delay on building the Keystone X-L oil pipeline across Nebraska. That pipeline could carry the Bakken oil, freeing up thousands of rail cars to move crops.

(Radio Iowa)

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Western IA Volleyball Scores from Mon., 9/29/14

Sports

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

(3-0) East Sac County 25-25-25, St. Mary, Storm Lake 19-19-17
(3-0) East Sac County 25-25-31, Alta/Aurelia 20-17-29
(2-1) Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 25-22-15, Siouxland Community Christian 18-25-9
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Missouri Valley 21-13-21

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Officials: 2 teens killed in Storm Lake car wreck

News

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say two teenagers have been killed and several people hospitalized following a car wreck in Storm Lake. The Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Department says a pickup truck collided head-on with another car Monday morning on a gravel road.

The Sioux City Journal reports a 17-year-old male and a 16-year-old female were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. A 15-year-old female was flown by helicopter to a Sioux City hospital. A 19-year-old woman was sent by ambulance to another hospital.  The pickup driver, 43-year-old Kent Erickson, suffered minor injuries in the collision. His passenger, 49-year-old Trent Jackson, was hospitalized.

Additional names and information has not been released.

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NWS forecast for the KJAN listening area: Tue., 9/30/2014

Weather

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

Today – Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight – Periods of showers and thunderstorms. Low around 61. South southeast wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Wednesday – Periods of showers and thunderstorms. High near 74. South southeast wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night – Periods of showers and thunderstorms. Low around 56. East southeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming north after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday – A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. North wind 6 to 11 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.

Friday – Sunny, with a high near 62. Breezy.

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Chiefs beat New England Patriots

Sports

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jamaal Charles returned from an ankle injury to score three touchdowns, Alex Smith threw for 248 yards and three scores, and the Chiefs routed the Patriots 41-14 on Monday night, getting the sports week off to a smashing start in Kansas City with the Royals preparing to open the baseball playoffs on Tuesday.

They held the Patriots’ Tom Brady to 159 yards passing and a touchdown, picking him off twice and returning one for a touchdown. Brady was also strip-sacked by Tamba Hali to set up a Chiefs field goal, capping off a miserable night for the two-time NFL MVP. The Chiefs forced the Patriots to air it out by stuffing Shane Vereen and Stevan Ridley. And when Brady dropped back, their front seven ran roughshod over New England’s suspect offensive line.

It hardly helped the Patriots offense that it was trying to operate on the same night Chiefs fans were trying to reclaim the record for loudest outdoor sports venue. The record was set in the first half, when Guinness World Records noted a noise level of 142.2 decibels — breaking the mark of 137.6 that Seattle Seahawks fans set last season.

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Chiefs break Seahawks’ Guinness noise record

Sports

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Arrowhead Stadium is once again the loudest outdoor venue in sports. After claiming the record last season, and then losing it to the Seattle Seahawks, the fans of the Kansas City Chiefs reclaimed the mark with a reading of 142.2 decibels in the first half of their game against the New England Patriots on Monday night. Guinness World Records was on hand to record the noise level. The record had been 137.6.

To put that in perspective, a jet engine at 100 feet is about 140 decibels, which means the sustained noise in the stadium was enough to jeopardize the hearing of the fans. Among them were several members of the Kansas City Royals, who will play the Oakland A’s in an AL wild-card game across the parking lot at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday night.

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Autopsy shows Chiefs LB Belcher had brain damage

Sports

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An autopsy performed a year after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his baby’s mother and himself found the 25-year-old sustained the same kind of brain damage that has turned up in other NFL players. Belcher fatally shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins on Dec. 1, 2012, in the couple’s Kansas City home before driving to Arrowhead Stadium and killing himself in front of the team’s general manager and head coach.

Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, sued the team, claiming the Chiefs failed to care for her son after he was subjected to repetitive head trauma. The autopsy found signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease found in athletes and others with a history of repetitive brain injuries. Attorneys for Shepherd and other plaintiffs suing the team released the findings.

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Iowa early News Headlines: Tue., Sept. 30th 2014

News

September 30th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A body found in a car trunk has been identified as that of an Iowa State University student from China who has been missing for more than three weeks. The Iowa City Police Department says the death of 20-year-old Ton Shao is suspicious. The cause of death is being withheld pending results of an autopsy completed over the weekend. Shao, a junior chemical engineering student, was last seen in Ames more than three weeks ago.

WEST UNION, Iowa (AP) — A pretrial conference has been delayed for a former Iowa mayor accused of sexual abuse. The date for Jason Manus’ pretrial conference was pushed back to Oct. 13 because his defense attorney died earlier this month. His trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 22. The 36-year-old Manus is charged with five counts of second-degree sexual abuse. He is accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl in 2010. He has pleaded not guilty. Manus was mayor of Oelwein until his resignation in August.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A Davenport man has been charged with vehicular homicide following a car wreck that killed two Illinois men. Twenty-four-year-old Kai Miller is charged with homicide by vehicle, operating while intoxicated and two counts of serious injury by vehicle in connection to the crash early Sunday in Davenport. Court records do not list an attorney. Authorities say Miller’s car collided with a vehicle carrying 21-year-old Andrew Scott Adams and 22-year-old Danny DeBacker,

ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa (AP) — Lab results show hundreds of capsules found at a northern Iowa prison tested negative for any controlled substances. The 300 to 400 capsules were found earlier this month at the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City. The pills contained an unknown substance, prompting a state drug investigation. State officials have not said how the capsules got inside the prison.

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