The National Weather Service has extended a Severe Thunderstorm Watch previously in effect for counties along and north of Interstate 80. The Watch now includes ADAMS-FREMONT-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-PAGE-RINGGOLD and TAYLOR COUNTIES, and is in effect for those counties until 2-a.m. Sunday.
625 PM CDT SAT APR 12 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
NORTHEASTERN MILLS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA…
SOUTHEASTERN POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA…
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 624 PM CDT…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF
GLENWOOD…OR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OMAHA…MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.
HAZARD…QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT…DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
OAKLAND…TREYNOR…CARSON… MACEDONIA…SILVER CITY…HANCOCK…
HENDERSON…MCCLELLAND…OLD TOWN PARK…
FARM CREEK PUBLIC WILDLIFE AREA AND BOTNA BEND PARK.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS…
HIGHWAY 59 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 41 AND 58 .
INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA NEAR MILE MARKER 8.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) – Matt Carpenter drove in two runs and Adam Wainwright saved a tired bullpen by lasting seven innings for the St. Louis Cardinals in their 10-4 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday. It was hardly a vintage performance by Wainwright (2-1). He gave up a homer to Junior Lake on his first pitch and allowed six more hits and three runs after that while striking out eight. The four runs were twice as many as Wainwright yielded in his first two starts.
But the right-hander, who led the majors with 241 2-3 innings pitched last year, was able to give the Cardinals’ bullpen some rest. St. Louis relievers Carlos Martinez, Kevin Siegrist and Trevor Rosenthal all threw more than 20 pitches in Friday’s 11-inning loss.
The win was Wainwright’s 101st with the Cardinals, tying Matt Morris, Larry Jackson and Max Lanier for 10th place on the franchise list.
352 PM CDT SAT APR 12 2014/ National Weather Service
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT….
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY LARGE HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN
DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT.
SUNDAY…
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT SUNDAY. AN
ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE.
SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT… SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING. ANY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
70 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
IN IOWA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 33 COUNTIES…
IN CENTRAL IOWA
BOONE DALLAS GRUNDY
HAMILTON HARDIN JASPER
MARSHALL POLK POWESHIEK
STORY TAMA WEBSTER
IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
BUTLER CERRO GORDO FRANKLIN
HUMBOLDT WRIGHT
IN NORTHEAST IOWA
BLACK HAWK BREMER
IN NORTHWEST IOWA
POCAHONTAS
IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA
MADISON MAHASKA MARION
WARREN
IN SOUTHWEST IOWA
ADAIR CASS
IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA
AUDUBON CALHOUN CARROLL
CRAWFORD GREENE GUTHRIE
SAC
IN SOUTHWEST IOWA
HARRISON POTTAWATTAMIE SHELBY
IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA
MONONA
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GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) – Environmental specialists with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are investigating following the crash of ammonia tanks into a western Iowa creek. The department says dead fish were discovered downstream from where two anhydrous ammonia tanks and a tractor fell into Brushy Creek north of Guthrie Center on Friday. The driver of the tractor, 34-year old Michael Haag, of Adair, was transported by Guthrie Center Rescue to the Guthrie County Hospital.
The John Deere 9510R tractor was pulling a disc and the two tanks when an old wooden bridge it was crossing on Oak Avenue, between 200th and 210th Street, collapsed, and the equipment fell into the creek. Investigators determined that the valves of the tanks had been shut off and that there was no fuel leaking from the tractor, but that some ammonia leaked into the water.
Some dead fish and elevated ammonia levels were found as far downstream as Monteith, about five miles southeast of Guthrie Center.
ADAIR, Iowa (AP) – Iowa authorities said a grass fire shut down about a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 80 near Adair.
Close-up pics courtesy Mike Kennon/Cass Co. Emergency Management Agency.
The Iowa Department of Transportation’s road conditions map show that I-80 is closed in both directions between exit 57, east of Walnut, and exit 70, just west of Adair. A detour has been set up. (As of 11:35, one-lane of I-80 eastbound was re-opened).
Looking west along I-80 eastbound. Ric Hanson/KJAN photo
I-80 looking eastbound from 710th St. in Cass Co.
Authorities were cleaning up a crash near the grass fire. Iowa Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Scott Bright says there were no serious injuries in the crash, and that officials do not believe the crash and fire are related.
Bright says officials shut down the stretch of I-80 for fear that smoke from the fire could cut visibility and cause collisions.
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