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Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Pott., Mills, Fremont Counties

Weather

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

202 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN IOWA…WESTERN MILLS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN IOWA…SOUTHWESTERN POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN IOWA…UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 202 AM CDT…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CEDAR CREEK… OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF OMAHA…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…

SOUTHERN OMAHA…COUNCIL BLUFFS…BELLEVUE…PAPILLION…

LA VISTA…PLATTSMOUTH…RALSTON…GLENWOOD…GRETNA…

SPRINGFIELD…MALVERN…LOUISVILLE…WEEPING WATER…TREYNOR…

ELMWOOD…PACIFIC JUNCTION…MURRAY…CEDAR CREEK…

MURDOCK AND UNION.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS…

HIGHWAY 34 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 17.

HIGHWAY 75 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 59 AND 91.

INTERSTATE 29 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 20 AND 56.

INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 8.

INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 426 AND 454.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

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

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NWS forecast for Cass & area Counties in IA: 7/7/16

Weather

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE EFFECT THIS MORNING (See the separate posts listed on the kjan.com Weather page)

EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME MAY BE SEVERE, WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70MPH, AND HAIL. LOW AROUND 70. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 60 PERCENT.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 40 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING THEN CLEARING. A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL EARLY MORNING. LOW IN THE MID 60S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S.

SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF  THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE MID 80S.

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Baseball Scores from Wed., July 6th 2016

Sports

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Adair-Casey 5, Stanton 0
Bondurant-Farrar 10, Panorama, Panora 0
Boone 5, Winterset 1
CAM, Anita 10, East Union, Afton 5
Coon Rapids-Bayard 12, Nodaway Valley 2
East Mills 13, Riverside, Oakland 3
Glenwood 13, LeMars 8
Harlan 4, Dallas Center-Grimes 2
Hinton 16, West Harrison, Mondamin 2 (5 innings)
Lawton-Bronson 6, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 5 (WVC Tournament Finals)
LeMars 14, Glenwood 1
Lewis Central 15, ADM, Adel 7
MOC-Floyd Valley 3, West Lyon, Inwood 2
Maquoketa 8, Denison-Schleswig 0
Ridge View 11, West Monona, Onawa 4
Tri-Center, Neola 15, Southwest Valley 5 (6 innings)

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Significant Weather Advisory for Harrison/Shelby/Mills/Pott Counties

Weather

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

112 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2016
UNTIL 2:00 AM CDT… AT 1:11 AM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF IRWIN TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF MEAD…AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE… OMAHA…COUNCIL BLUFFS…BELLEVUE…PAPILLION…LA VISTA… PLATTSMOUTH…RALSTON…GLENWOOD…HARLAN…GRETNA… MISSOURI VALLEY…ASHLAND…VALLEY…LOGAN…SPRINGFIELD…OAKLAND… AVOCA…YUTAN…LOUISVILLE AND WEEPING WATER.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY…SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS… AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS… FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.

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Severe Thunderstorm Watch area expanded

Weather

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 345 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN IOWA: ADAMS FREMONT MILLS MONTGOMERY PAGE POTTAWATTAMIE RINGGOLD TAYLOR and UNION.

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Kang hits key double amid investigation, Bucs beat Cards 7-5

Sports

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jung Ho Kang drove in two key runs with a seventh-inning double a day after Chicago police said they were investigating an allegation of sexual assault against the Pirates infielder, and Pittsburgh beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 on Wednesday night for its sixth straight comeback win.

Pittsburgh has won seven consecutive overall and leapfrogged St. Louis for second place in the NL Central. It got homers from David Freese and Sean Rodriguez, and Kang’s double off Jonathan Broxton (1-1) put the Pirates up 6-5 after they trailed 5-1.

Kang has not been charged, and Major League Baseball said in a statement it would “respond fully as additional facts emerge.” The Pirates have won three straight series at Busch Stadium after dropping their previous seven in St. Louis. Pirates relievers combined for five scoreless innings. A.J. Schugel (2-2) got the win and Mark Melancon picked up his 26th save.

Cardinals All-Star infielder Matt Carpenter left in the third inning with a right oblique injury after swinging awkwardly.

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Regional Softball Schedule: Thursday, July 7th 2016

Sports

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

(all games start at 7-p.m. unless otherwise noted)

Class 4A

Region 1

Denison-Schleswig vs. Storm Lake @ Denison

LeMars vs Spencer @ LeMars

Region 8

Creston vs. Carroll @ Creston

Glenwood vs. Harlan @ Glenwood

Class 5A

Region 8

Council Bluffs/Abe Lincoln vs. Council Bluffs/T.J @ Abe Lincoln

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Regional Softball Scores from Wed., July 6th

Sports

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Class 3A  

Region 8

Atlantic 11, Red Oak 0

Shenandoah 12, Clarinda 5

Kuemper Catholic 7, Humboldt 3

Class 2A

Region 1

Logan-Magnolia 2,. Ridge View 0

MVAO 7, MMC-RU 3

West Lyon 6, Unity Christian 5

Region 8

I-35/Truro 11, West Central Valley 1

Earlham 17, AHSTW 4

Treynor 12, Tri-Center 0

Underwood 5, Mo. Valley 4

Class 1A

Region 2

Glidden-Ralston 11, Nodaway Valley 7

Newell-Fonda 5, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1

Region 7

Exira/EHK 10, CAM 0

River Valley 18, Audubon 1

Lawton-Bronson 10, Boyer Valley 0

Charter Oak-Ute 7, Riverside 3

Region 8

West Harrison 5, Fremont-Mills 0

Westwood 7, West Monona 2

Bedford 5, Sidney 3

Lenox 18, Stanton 1

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Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect until 7-a.m. Thursday

Weather

July 7th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

1245 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2016

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 344 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE KJAN LISTENING AREA: ADAIR AUDUBON CARROLL CASS  CRAWFORD DALLAS GUTHRIE MADISON  and SAC. Watch344

* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE…

ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE.

PROBABILITY TABLE:

PROB OF 2 OR MORE TORNADOES : <05%

PROB OF 1 OR MORE STRONG /F2-F5/ TORNADOES : <02%

PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE WIND EVENTS : 30%

PROB OF 1 OR MORE WIND EVENTS > 75 MPH : 20%

PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE HAIL EVENTS : 10%

PROB OF 1 OR MORE HAIL EVENTS > 2 INCHES : 10%

PROB OF 6 OR MORE COMBINED SEVERE HAIL/WIND EVENTS : 60%

 

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Report: 1 in 5 working Iowa households fail to earn enough for basic needs

News

July 6th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Another report is showing thousands of working Iowans are not making enough money to cover basic needs such as food, housing, health care, and transportation. The “Cost of Living in Iowa” report, released today (Wednesday) by the Iowa Policy Project (IPP), finds 19-percent of working households in Iowa do not earn enough to cover a “basic needs family budget.” Peter Fisher is the author of the report and the IPP’s research director.

“We found almost one in five Iowa working families do not earn enough to achieve self sufficiency,” Fisher said. The IPP report indicates single parents in Iowa are struggling the most. “Approximately 12-percent of married couples with children living at home don’t earn enough. It goes up to 27.5-percent for single persons and a whopping 62-percent for single parents,” Fisher said. The report also finds 17-percent of Iowans living in urban areas do not earn enough to meet basic needs, while the figures rises to nearly 22-percent for those living in more rural Iowa counties.

“I think that reflects two things; one is we found higher costs of living in rural areas, largely because of substantially higher health insurance costs, longer commutes and higher transportation costs,” Fisher said. “When you combine that with poorer job opportunities and lower pay, in general, in rural areas and you end up with a significantly higher percentage of families struggling to get by.” The IPP report follows a United Ways of Iowa report released last week that found nearly one-third of Iowans struggle to afford basic living expenses. Fisher says the United Way report included more Iowa families who are living in poverty.

“Those fractions are not really comparable for a couple of reasons, one is they’re looking at all families, all households in the state, whether of not there’s somebody employed,” Fisher said. “They’re including senior families and families headed by somebody with a disability, for example, who can’t work. We’re looking only at families with a full-time worker, so we’re looking at working families.” This is part 2 of a three-part report from the Iowa Policy Project. In April, the IPP released part one, outlining basic-needs budgets for various family types across the state.

(Radio Iowa)

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