Northwest Iowa — Wednesday’s storm that hit Sibley and other areas of northwest Iowa caused damage to crops, trees, buildings, and power lines — but second-in-command Peter Rodgers, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls, says videos of the storm posted online do not show it was a tornado.
Rodgers says wind speeds were between 60 to 80 miles-per-hour in the storm. Osceola County Emergency Management Director Corey Shearer has surveyed damage in Sibley, Ocheyedan, and Allendorf.
Kossuth County Emergency Management Coordinator Charissa Mueller was tracking the storm as it passed through Fenton.
In Lyon County, some roofs in Rock Rapids were damaged, in Clay County trees were toppled near Fostoria and in Emmet County the Veterans Memorial in Emmetsburg was damaged as the storm rolled through.
Photo by Sharia Snedeker
