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Tornado winds damage an Iowa church, homes, farm buildings

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March 7th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — The National Weather Service in Davenport has confirmed three injuries and 80 homes damaged in Muscatine from a tornado that traveled nearly two miles as a line of severe storms moved across the state. An EF2 tornado with winds peaking at 115 miles per hour struck at around 10 p.m. Monday.

The Muscatine Journal reports a chimney crashed through the roof of the Wesley United Methodist Church destroying the church pipe organ. Another EF2 tornado swept along 25 miles through Blue Grass, northwest Davenport and Eldridge damaging a home, farm buildings, trees and power poles.

Earlier in the evening a tornado with 90-mile-per-hour winds destroyed farm buildings and trees near Bernard in Eastern Iowa. Another suspected tornado damaged a school in Seymour in south-central Iowa.