BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
759 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
NORTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA…
SOUTH CENTRAL WORTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA…
SOUTHEASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA…
NORTHEASTERN WRIGHT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA…
CERRO GORDO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA…

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 758 PM CDT…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST
OF BELMOND…OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARNER…MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
35 MPH.

HAZARD…60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT…HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS…SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
MASON CITY…BELMOND…NORA SPRINGS…SHEFFIELD…ROCKWELL…CLEAR
LAKE…MASON CITY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT…VENTURA…LATIMER…KLEMME…
THORNTON…PLYMOUTH…MESERVEY…ALEXANDER…SWALEDALE…ROWAN…
ROCK FALLS…GOODELL…CHAPIN AND DOUGHERTY.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 167 AND 204.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.