Thousands lose power, damage reported following severe storms Sunday afternoon

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Extreme rounds of extreme thunderstorms Sunday afternoon produced massive hail, damaging winds and beautiful clouds as they moved by. A number of thousand Iowans misplaced energy and injury has been reported in a number of areas.

The storms moved into Jap Iowa after 3 p.m. Sunday producing wind reviews in extra of 70 miles per hour. Tree and minor structural injury has been reported throughout a number of counties together with Linn and Johnson Counties. Within the Amana Colonies, Amana Elementary College sustained roof injury because the storms moved by. Officers in West Liberty reported timber down throughout town, with a number of roads blocked. Metropolis crews had been rapidly dispatched to clear timber to permit site visitors to maneuver by town.

Within the metropolis of Mount Nice, residents report timber down on a number of properties and blocking metropolis streets. Related injury has been reported within the Iowa County neighborhood of Marengo. No critical accidents had been reported in both neighborhood.

A number of thousand Iowans misplaced energy because the extreme storms moved by. As of 8:45 p.m., greater than 9,000 properties and companies remained with out energy in southeast Iowa. The best variety of outages affected Johnson, Cedar, Louisa, Keokuk, Washington and Henry Counties. Utility corporations have dispatched crews throughout the realm to answer the outages.

No critical accidents have been reported, in accordance with emergency administration officers.

The storms additionally produced beautiful photographs. Tons of of photographs have been submitted to KCRG-TV9 YouNews, click on right here to see the photographs and video.

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