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Severe Thunderstorm warning update: Mills/Pott. Counties

Weather

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

MILLS IA-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-

636 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR EASTERN MILLS AND SOUTH CENTRAL POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTIES…

AT 636 PM CDT…SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR MACEDONIA TO NEAR MALVERN…MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

HAZARD…60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT…HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO ROOFS…SIDING AND TREES.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…

OAKLAND…MALVERN…CARSON…EMERSON…MACEDONIA…HENDERSON…HASTINGS AND OLD TOWN PARK.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS…

HIGHWAY 34 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 17 AND 27.

HIGHWAY 59 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 25 AND 52.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

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Special Weather Statement: Cass/Taylor/Adams Counties

Weather

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

TAYLOR IA-CASS IA-ADAMS IA-

627 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

…LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL…

AT 627 PM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR GRISWOLD TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STANTON…AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…

CORNING…BEDFORD…LENOX…GRISWOLD…LAKE ICARIA…LEWIS…NEW

MARKET…PRESCOTT…GRAVITY…NODAWAY…SHARPSBURG…CONWAY…

CARBON…LAKE OF THREE FIRES STATE PARK…LAKE ICARIA STATE PARK…

GRISWOLD PARK…CORNING MUNICIPAL AIRPORT…BEDFORD MUNICIPAL AIRPORT

AND COLD SPRINGS STATE PARK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS…AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Mills/Southern Pott. Counties

Weather

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

624 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…MILLS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA…SOUTH CENTRAL POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA… UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 624 PM CDT…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER GLENWOOD…OR 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OMAHA…MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD…60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT…HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE

TO ROOFS…SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…

NORTHEASTERN COUNCIL BLUFFS…GLENWOOD…OAKLAND…MALVERN…

TREYNOR…CARSON…EMERSON…MACEDONIA…SILVER CITY…HENDERSON…

HASTINGS…MCCLELLAND AND OLD TOWN PARK.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS…

HIGHWAY 34 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 6 AND 27.

HIGHWAY 59 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 25 AND 52.

INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 8 AND 11.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A

BUILDING.

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Iowa man pleads not guilty in suicide case

News

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

McPAUL, Iowa (AP) — A southwest Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assisting or participating in a woman’s suicide. The Omaha World-Herald reports 58-year-old James Allen Zingg, of McPaul, is charged with assisting in the January suicide of 47-year-old Gwendolyn N. Melloway. He was arrested in June. Authorities are charging Zingg under a seldom-used law that was spurred when Dr. Jack Kevorkian was prosecuted for helping terminally ill patients end their lives.

Prosecutors say Zingg made a suicide pact with Melloway. Zingg says the pair both ingested a lethal cocktail of pills, but he survived. He says it was Melloway’s idea to swallow the pills. Fremont County Attorney James Burger says the charge is justified. Zingg’s attorney declined to immediately comment on the case.

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Severe Thunderstorm Watch for SW IA

Weather

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

540 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 399 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

. IOWA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

FREMONT MILLS MONTGOMERY PAGE

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Special Weather Statement: Cass/Adams/Union Counties

Weather

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

CASS IA-UNION IA-ADAMS IA-

524 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

…THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL…

AT 524 PM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF LAKE ICARIA…OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORNING…MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…

CORNING…LENOX…LAKE ICARIA…PRESCOTT…CROMWELL…KENT…

CARBON…LAKE ICARIA STATE PARK AND CORNING MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM…AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

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Branstad requests Presidential Disaster Declaration

News

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry E. Branstad today (Monday) signed a letter to be delivered to President Obama requesting a Presidential Disaster Declaration for nine Iowa counties where significant damage was sustained from damaging winds, hail, heavy rains and thunderstorms from June 3, 2014 – June 4, 2014. The request pertains to damages from the June 3 – 4 severe weather event and it is possible more requests will be made for additional counties adversely affected by subsequent severe weather.

Regarding the June 3 – 4 severe weather event, the letter reads, in part, “In response to the situation, I have issued a total of three State of Iowa Proclamations of Disaster Emergency. The first was issued on June 3, 2014, directing the execution of the Iowa Emergency Response Plan in Pottawattamie County.
Succeeding proclamations have resulted in a total of 11 counties to be in a State of Disaster Emergency. These actions were taken pursuant to Iowa Code § 29C.6 and Section 401 of the Stafford Act.

“I determined that the severity of the damage in Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Ringgold, Taylor, and Wayne Counties is so great that Joint Federal, State, and local Public Assistance Preliminary Damage Assessments were required. On June 12, 2014, the State of Iowa first requested a Joint Federal, State, and local Public Assistance Preliminary Damage Assessment for ten of the most severely impacted counties. These assessments commenced on June 18,
and were concluded on June 21.

“As a result of these Joint assessments, I have determined that the severity of damages in nine counties is such that Federal Assistance is needed.”

(Press Release)

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Weather officials confirm 4 tornadoes hit Iowa

News, Weather

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

TRAER, Iowa (AP) — Weather officials have confirmed four tornadoes hit Iowa after severe storms passed through the state. The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down just north of Traer on Sunday and caused extensive tree damage but remained away from populated areas. A farm outbuilding also was damaged.

Officials say it appears to have been an EF-1 tornado with peak wind of 90 miles per hour. Its path was 6.6 miles long and 200 yards wide. The service says it has analyzed pictures and videos from the media and the public and confirmed at least three additional tornadoes near Jewell, Stuart, and in eastern Jasper County. No tree or structural damage was reported from them.

The agency says at least 11 tornadoes were reported Sunday evening by trained storm spotters.

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(Update 3-p.m.) Trooper ok after his cruiser is hit by a semi

News

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

An Iowa State Patrol trooper was treated and released from Atlantic hospital after a wreck on Interstate-80 in western Iowa late Monday morning. According to the accident report, Trooper Todd Granner, of Atlantic, was buckled in his patrol car east of Atlantic, with his vehicle positioned to direct traffic around another accident in the westbound lanes of I-80.

Trooper Todd Granner

Trooper Todd Granner

Authorities say a semi driver reached to retrieve something inside his cab and when he looked back up realized traffic ahead had slowed substantially. The semi veered to avoid the line of traffic and ran into the back of the Granner’s patrol car and then into a guard rail. The trooper was taken to the Atlantic hospital as a precaution. The semi driver was not hurt. He was not identified but was expected to be cited for the incident.

(Radio Iowa)

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Flash Flood Watch cancelled for Pottawattamie County

Weather

July 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

246 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED…

THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHWEST IOWA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING…RAINFALL IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO BE SUFFICIENT FOR FLASH FLOODING. THUS THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINING COUNTIES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 FROM 7-PM MONDAY UNTIL 7-AM TUESDAY.

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