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Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Monona/Harrison/Shelby Counties

Weather

June 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

1219 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 2018

The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Monona County in west central Iowa...
  Harrison County in southwestern Iowa...
  Western Shelby County in southwestern Iowa...

* Until 100 AM CDT.

* At 1218 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Smithland to Modale, moving east at 45 mph.

  HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts. This line of storms has a history of
           60 to 70 mph winds and some tree and power line damage.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
           mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

* Locations impacted include...
  Onawa, Logan, Earling, Mondamin, Ute, Persia, Modale, Pisgah,
  Moorhead, Woodbine, Mapleton, Dunlap, Blencoe, Panama, Portsmouth,
  Magnolia, Soldier, Little Sioux, Castana and Turin.

This includes Interstate 29 between mile markers 79 and 97.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.