In which the sky gets dark in the middle of the afternoon.
…SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 150 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA SOUTHEASTERN KEOKUK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA
* UNTIL 215 PM CDT
* AT 147 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER-SIZED HAIL…AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PACKWOOD…OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD…AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR… PACKWOOD BY 155 PM CDT RICHLAND BY 205 PM CDT
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE IMMEDIATELY INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT…LON 4120 9218 4105 9218 4105 9195 4120 9195
Of course, if this storm keeps on course it will move north of the town my office is in, and I will miss it completely. Which would suck. Maybe there’s another one behind it.
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They were so totally not kidding about the quarter-sized hail! Whoo-ooo!
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I peek in every once in a while… I was on campus in Ames and left at 10:30 to drive east on HWY 30 to Marshalltown to meet Stew for a meeting at our bank. The sky in my rearview mirror was spooky and by the time I was picking up Stew there was crazy lightening and thunder boomies. All hell broke loose while we were signing papers (however only power flickers) and as I was leaving and driving back to Ames it was just a gray sky with steady rain and some wind. Coming back into Ames the sky was clearing (still spooky looking to southeast), but it looked like a tornado had blown through. Tents down, port-o-pots on their sides and on campus several trees down. Rumors are a few students got knocked out by falling branches too.