Medivac Ambulance and Atlantic Fire and Rescue were called to the scene of a two-vehicle accident this morning, just before 7-a.m. According to dispatch reports, a truck rear-ended a semi near Schildberg Construction on west Highway 6 near 22nd Street. It’s unclear if there were any injuries. Both vehicles were still on the traveled portion of the road at 7-a.m.
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Shenandoah won both the boys and girls team titles at the Clarinda Cross Country Meet on Monday. Erica Munsinger of Shenandoah was the individual girls winner and Joe Blake of Shenandoah won the boys race. Click this link for complete results: Clarinda CC Meet
AREA COUNTIES: MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-
TODAY AND TONIGHT:
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA THIS MORNING AND
MAY CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS OVER THE
AREA AND A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES FROM WESTERN NEBRASKA
TO NORTH DAKOTA. ISOLATED STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL THIS
AFTERNOON BUT THE BETTER CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED TO
BE OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY:
MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL OVER THE AREA
WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY AS ADDITIONAL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS AND A
COLD FRONT MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE IN
PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA WITH LARGE HAIL
THE PRIMARY HAZARD.
SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT…
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME TODAY OR TONIGHT.
AREA COUNTIES: SAC-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-ADAMS-UNION-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD
533 AM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014
TODAY AND TONIGHT: SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE ACROSS THE WEST THIS MORNING AND OVER THE ENTIRE REGION TONIGHT.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY: THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE FORECAST TO PERSIST THROUGH THURSDAY. HOWEVER…THE OVERALL PROBABILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS LOW AT THIS TIME. IF SEVERE WEATHER DOES OCCUR…THE PERIOD OF MOST
CONCERN WOULD BE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE FAR
SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA WHERE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT…
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
Most Iowa farmers haven’t started the harvest yet but already it’s clear there will be problems with moving the grain. U-S Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says rail cars will be in short supply and he doesn’t foresee any solution coming down the tracks. “Our surface transportation board, along with our rail companies, and along with us in Washington, we’re going to have to figure out a way to create more capacity so that commodities can move,” Foxx says. Farmers need rail cars to move their crops, but many rail cars are being diverted to haul oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and Montana.
“It’s an issue we have to deal with,” Foxx says. “The Surface Transportation Board has primary responsibility for it but clearly with the proliferation of the movement of crude oil by rail, it increases competition for precious rail space.” Foxx says there’s no easy fix to the looming rail car shortage. “Even if Congress funded us tomorrow, it would still take some time to get track on the ground and things going,” Foxx says. “It’s not going to be a short-term solution but again, the Surface Transportation Board has primary responsibility for trying to work out the issues that have to do with commodities moving.”
Many blame the rail car shortage on the delay on building the Keystone X-L oil pipeline across Nebraska. That pipeline could carry the Bakken oil, freeing up thousands of rail cars to move crops.
(Radio Iowa)
(3-0) East Sac County 25-25-25, St. Mary, Storm Lake 19-19-17
(3-0) East Sac County 25-25-31, Alta/Aurelia 20-17-29
(2-1) Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 25-22-15, Siouxland Community Christian 18-25-9
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Missouri Valley 21-13-21
STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say two teenagers have been killed and several people hospitalized following a car wreck in Storm Lake. The Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Department says a pickup truck collided head-on with another car Monday morning on a gravel road.
The Sioux City Journal reports a 17-year-old male and a 16-year-old female were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. A 15-year-old female was flown by helicopter to a Sioux City hospital. A 19-year-old woman was sent by ambulance to another hospital. The pickup driver, 43-year-old Kent Erickson, suffered minor injuries in the collision. His passenger, 49-year-old Trent Jackson, was hospitalized.
Additional names and information has not been released.
Today – Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Breezy, with an east southeast wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight – Periods of showers and thunderstorms. Low around 61. South southeast wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday – Periods of showers and thunderstorms. High near 74. South southeast wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night – Periods of showers and thunderstorms. Low around 56. East southeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming north after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday – A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. North wind 6 to 11 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.
Friday – Sunny, with a high near 62. Breezy.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jamaal Charles returned from an ankle injury to score three touchdowns, Alex Smith threw for 248 yards and three scores, and the Chiefs routed the Patriots 41-14 on Monday night, getting the sports week off to a smashing start in Kansas City with the Royals preparing to open the baseball playoffs on Tuesday.
They held the Patriots’ Tom Brady to 159 yards passing and a touchdown, picking him off twice and returning one for a touchdown. Brady was also strip-sacked by Tamba Hali to set up a Chiefs field goal, capping off a miserable night for the two-time NFL MVP. The Chiefs forced the Patriots to air it out by stuffing Shane Vereen and Stevan Ridley. And when Brady dropped back, their front seven ran roughshod over New England’s suspect offensive line.
It hardly helped the Patriots offense that it was trying to operate on the same night Chiefs fans were trying to reclaim the record for loudest outdoor sports venue. The record was set in the first half, when Guinness World Records noted a noise level of 142.2 decibels — breaking the mark of 137.6 that Seattle Seahawks fans set last season.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Arrowhead Stadium is once again the loudest outdoor venue in sports. After claiming the record last season, and then losing it to the Seattle Seahawks, the fans of the Kansas City Chiefs reclaimed the mark with a reading of 142.2 decibels in the first half of their game against the New England Patriots on Monday night. Guinness World Records was on hand to record the noise level. The record had been 137.6.
To put that in perspective, a jet engine at 100 feet is about 140 decibels, which means the sustained noise in the stadium was enough to jeopardize the hearing of the fans. Among them were several members of the Kansas City Royals, who will play the Oakland A’s in an AL wild-card game across the parking lot at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday night.
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