Nope. In NE Iowa. So we’ll be paying for new roofs in Omaha and Des Moines.
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Nope. In NE Iowa. So we’ll be paying for new roofs in Omaha and Des Moines.
Yep, a gorilla confirmed on radar heading for Des Moines.
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Talk of large hail reminds me of one of the techs that used to work at the control tower I was at. His daughter had been living in Oklahoma, I think, or maybe Kansas, and the Suburban she was driving was caught in a massive hailstorm. Her dad took the SUV as his work vehicle & had it at the tower most days … that thing looked like the Baseball Furies gang from “The Warriors” had pummeled that poor Suburban with baseball bats for hours. It was more dinged and dimpled than a golf ball.
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Still traumatized from the storm 2 years ago. If I get another car wrecked by hail, I'm getting a tank.
If the hail is Gorilla shaped, who needs ice sculptures? If it is the size of a gorilla, the shingles is the least of my concern.
If you make it out of Iowa City, the worst is behind you.
Also looks like a nasty nasty gorilla fart coming into Kansas.
We had a house party the night before a home football game (Criner and Walden eras so we sucked and just went to drink) and we were hanging pretty bad the next moring and we just mixed up some left over liquor and we all tasted it first, We had to give it a name so one guy just said "gorilla fart" out of the blue so we ran with it.
I would say risk is equal but with the power of hindsight I would say logic dictates this event will be lesser. Different type of setup today.
A line of storms are developing in NE along the Missouri River and then just west of there. Will there be 2 rounds of storms with supercells storms first then the cold front storms?
From what I read, the tornado risk is lower today. The best chance for twisters will be any cells that can form ahead of an advancing cold front. The cold front will eventually overtake these cells, leading to a line of storms. The main risk with the line will be large hail and winds. I think by the time the storms make it to central IA later tonight, it will be mostly linear storms with little tornado risk.
That's my amateur take! @wxman1 can certainly provide much more accurate info and more details!
