Funnel clouds seen over Cass County Sunday evening

July 21st, 2025 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – KJAN listeners and social media followers provided photos of funnel clouds that formed late Sunday evening south of Wiota, near Anita, and northwest of Atlantic. The first reports of a funnel being seen was south of Wiota, at around 5:12-p.m.

A short while later, two separate funnels were spotted near Lake Anita and the Anita Sale Barn. KJAN received several pictures of both phenomenon, referred to by the National Weather Service as “Cold Air funnels.”

A little after 5:30-p.m., the Weather Service sent out a Special Weather Statement advising “Funnel clouds are possible due to current atmospheric conditions. These funnel clouds are typically brief, drop only a few hundred feet from the cloud base, and rarely become a tornado or cause damage.”

They urged persons seeing them, to report their observances to the National Weather Service. Another funnel was observed northwest of Atlantic, just before 6-p.m., Sunday.

There were no confirmed reports of any funnels reaching the ground, and no injuries were r