PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
830 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2016
..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON…
..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE….
..REMARKS..
0808 PM TSTM WND GST 2 WNW ATLANTIC 08/11/2016 M59 MPH CASS IA AWOS REPORTED AT the Atlantic Airport.

Huge tree down south of the intersection of 7th & Olive just before 8-p.m. Thursday, blocked the southbound lane. (Ric Hanson photo)

I-80 westbound east of exit 60 (62 mile marker) one lane is blocked due to a electronic message sign on the interstate! (Update 9-p.m.: the sign has been pushed out of the traveled portion of the road)

0805 PM TSTM WND DMG BAYARD 08/11/2016 GUTHRIE IA EMERGENCY MNGR POWER LINES DOWN IN TOWN. 4 TO 6 IN LIMBS DOWN IN TOWN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

0846 PM TSTM WND DMG ADEL
08/11/2016 DALLAS IA EMERGENCY MNGR
NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
THROUGHOUT DALLAS COUNTY. CITIES AFFECTED
INCLUDE ADEL, DALLAS CENTER, REDFIELD, AND
DEXTER. TREE LIMB ON EM’S ROOF. TIME
ESTIMATED FROM WHEN STORM HIT ADEL.

Cass County Deputy Auditor Sheri Karns said Thursday, one person had filed papers to run in the November 8th Cass County General Election. Jody Lorence filed her papers for a single seat on the Cass County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, in the NorthWest District. The seat is currently held by John Molgaard.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for a fatal hit-and-run in western Iowa. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports 44-year-old Tracy Peniska, of Omaha, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony count of leaving the scene of a fatal crash and a misdemeanor count of obstruction.

Peniska was given the jail sentence for the obstruction count. He got two years’ probation for the felony count, but faces up to five years in prison if his deferred judgment on that count is revoked. Police say Peniska hit and killed 29-year-old pedestrian Brett Jensen on March 9. Police say Peniska reported his car stolen to Omaha police later that night, but soon admitted he made up the stolen-car story.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The city with Iowa’s highest African-American population has settled lawsuits against white police officers who roughed up black residents, including a 13-year-old girl who was handcuffed after yelling at a passing officer to “slow down.” Videos obtained by The Associated Press in two of the cases show questionable uses of force by Waterloo officers.

In one, an officer slams 17-year-old Malcolm Anderson face-first into a sidewalk outside a hospital and leaves him handcuffed and injured on the ground. In another, the same officer points his stun gun at a crowd of black residents before using it to shock 31-year-old Justin Jones, who’d been helping police break up a party.

The city’s insurer will pay $170,000 to settle the Jones and Anderson cases. The amount going to the girl’s family hasn’t been released.

OSAGE, Iowa (AP) – Mitchell County supervisors have decided to heed a request from the city of Osage to remove a road sign warning of “Suicidal Deer.”  The sign there and one north of St. Ansgar were meant to be attention-getters for motorists navigating areas with high deer populations. But in addition to attention, the signs gained criticism from some people who thought the signs made light of mental illness and brought up sad memories for those who lost someone to suicide.

Osage Mayor Steve Cooper had asked for the sign in his city of 3,600 people to be removed, so at its Aug. 2 meeting the board decided to replace the “Suicidal Deer” sign in Osage with a sign carrying a more conventional warning. The other sign won’t be changed.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest on Monday of 29-year old Samantha Jo Scybert on a felony charge of Possession Methamphetamine 3rd/Subsequent Offense (D Felony). Scybert, who’s from Atlantic, was taken to the Cass County Jail and was later released on $5,000 bond.

The Sheriff’s Office says on Tuesday, 43-year old John Stratton Eichelberger, of Atlantic, turned himself in on an Atlantic Police Department warrant for Violation of Protective Order. Eichelberger was booked at the Cass County Jail and released on $300 bond.

And on Wednesday, Cass County Sheriff’s deputies took into custody 27-year old Damion Bryan Selders, of Atlantic, on a court order to begin serving a sentence. Selders remains in custody at the Cass County Jail until transport to Iowa Medical and Classification Center.