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Today: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. West southwest wind 5 to 13 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with a low around 62. West northwest wind 5 to 7 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 84. Northwest wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Sunday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Sunny, with a high near 85. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 80.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 84. The Low was 62. Last year on this date the High was 90 and the Low was 65. The Record High on this date was 112 in 1936. The Record Low was 41 in 1967. Sunrise was at 5:58-a.m. Sunset is at 8:53-p.m.
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(Atlantic, Iowa) – A severe thunderstorm moved through the area early yesterday (Wednesday) morning. Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Kennon says although there were no reported injuries, widespread damages were evident. Winds in excess of 70 mph knocked down trees, large limbs and created some property damages with power outages. Strong winds also laid down field corn in areas.
While performing Damage Assessments, Kennon noticed that some damages were more severe, very concentrated and seemed to run in a line. A drone was deployed and found that his suspicions were correct. There is a clear path of damage that runs along 4th Street in Marne to a cattle feeding operation at 580th and Eastland Road and ends southeast of the intersection of Eastland Road and 590th. This line is nearly 3 miles long. Similar damage was also noticed in the City of Cumberland and in a couple of other rural locations in Cass County.
Drone picture taken by Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy, Ben Bartholomew.
Mike Kennon was interested in what the National Weather Service thought of this, so he submitted pictures and the drone video footage for their evaluation. Rod Donovan of the NWS-Des Moines said, “ It certainly appears there may have been some spin up circulations along the leading edge of the storm. Likely the radar beam started overshooting these features, so they were quite shallow features.”
The National Weather Service does not currently plan to perform a preliminary storm survey at this time.
[Council Bluffs, Iowa] – Emergency Management officials in Pottawattamie County are requesting the public report damages incurred to residential and business properties, as a result of the Wednesday, July 12th severe storms. The storms produced significant winds throughout the county, causing scattered structural damage, downed trees and power lines.
Pott. County Emergency Management Coordinator Doug Reed says “Although it doesn’t currently appear that a request for a disaster declaration is likely, we want to make sure we have as much data as possible before making that final decision. Other local or state-level assistance programs may be available to qualifying property owners depending on the amount or concentration of damage reports received.”
Pott. County EMA
Property owners can report their damage at pcema-ia.org. The system will ask for location and damage information as well as photos of the damage. Damage reports will be accepted through the end of the business day on Friday, July 13th.
Today: Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 87. Southwest wind 5 to 11 mph.
Tonight: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 3am and 4am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. South southwest wind around 7 mph.
Tomorrow: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. South southwest wind 8 to 11 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 85.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Sunny, with a high near 85.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 84. We received .29″ of rain during the day (with .12″ received prior to 7-a.m., for a total of .41″). Our Low was 60. Last year on this date the High was 88 and the Low was 58. The Record High on this date was 108 in 1936. The Record Low was 44 in 1897. Sunrise is at 5:57-a.m. Sunset is at 8:53-p.m.
(Will be updated as reports come in)
Numerous reports from across southwest and western Iowa, as well as eastern Nebraska, of trees and power lines down.
7:30-a.m., Union County EMA reports an estimated 50 mph gust of wind in Creston.
7:17-a.m., 65 mph wind gust reported by the public, 1 mile north of Fontanelle.
7:05-a.m., tree down across the road near Cumberland (location unclear)
7:10-a.m. Tree down across the road at 3rd and Linn, in Atlantic.
3rd & Linn in Atlantic (Lori Murphy, photo)
7:16-a.m., Atlantic Fire dispatched for a tree fire along Hwy 71, just south of Memphis Road; Fire out now (7:26-a.m.). Tree down across the power line.
7:12-a.m, Power outage reported in SW/SE Atlantic by residents.
7:12-a.m., Tstm Wind Gust in Corning estimated at 70 mph (report from the Public)
6:38-a.m., Multiple trees damaged in Council Bluffs.
6:17-a.m., Thunderstorm wind damage 3 miles E/SE of Council Bluffs. Roof blown-off the Titan Hill Intermediate School.
6:12-a.m., Hail just under the size of pennies reported in Earlham.
Montgomery County EMA photo
Montgomery County EMA photo
Today: Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible early this morning. The main hazards will be damaging wind gusts, though hail and locally heavy rainfall are also possible; Showers and thunderstorms through mid-day. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 84. East southeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west this afternoon. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tom. Night: A 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after midnight. Low around 64.
Friday: A 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms, otherwise Mostly sunny, with a high near 83.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 85.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 90. Our Low was 67. As of 7-a.m. (24-hour precip.) rainfall in Atlantic was .12″. Last year on this date the High was 85 and the Low was 56. The Record High on this date was 106 in 1939. The Record Low was 47 in 1895 & 1975. Sunset was at 5:56-a.m. Sunset is at 8:54-p.m.
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