Massive storm in central U.S.

[Bsktball55]

I don't know if it's the same system or not, but some massive winds just blew through St. Louis area.

[cubswin]

I've got probably 40-50 mph gusts right now, just the leading edge of yellow going thru. Hopefully none of my trees decide to give up and fall on my house.

[AirForceAngler]

I don't know if it's the same system or not, but some massive winds just blew through St. Louis area.

Yep, just came through here, too. Lotta wind and rain. I was outside watching it roll in. Some very interesting cloud activity! Some of them were quite swirly!

[Jeff Hahn]

The Cleveland meteorologist was showing that storm on the weather this evening. Luckily the system will break up before it gets to us.

[basscat21]

The Cleveland meteorologist was showing that storm on the weather this evening. Luckily the system will break up before it gets to us.

From what I hear you don't have bars to drink in before it comes!

[Sunkist]

Some crappy flip phone pictures of one that hit while we were fishing at a friend's pond ~5 years ago...

Those are very good flip phone pics

[darryl1966]

is there any corn left standing , I saw thousands of acres flattened

[hatcreek]

is there any corn left standing , I saw thousands of acres flattened

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[JTN]

July 11-15 1995 there was out break of Derecho's, We got clobbered the first two nights in a row.I remember the local tv weathermen (we didn't have cable or cell phones) stayed on all night and took reports as the first one started in Eastern Montana and rolled across North Dakota,the storm front was moving 65-70 mph and there was a huge bow echo on the radar screen. Our power flashed once at 2.15 am and then it was out,it was hot humid and dead calm out,with in a few minutes it was here.My wife and I and our 11 month old headed for the basement and listened to hailstones and tree branches nock the windows out of our old two story farm house. It took a week to clean up the farm yard,what a mess.

[Babe Winkleworm]

Tama probably needed a good mopping anyways.

[tcesni]

The crop damage is definitely extensive and will likely impact millions of acres of corn in Iowa alone. A ton of money in research plots also just blew away.

[liljakec]

Tama probably needed a good mopping anyways.

My wife works smack dab in the middle of Tama and Cedar Rapids and got hammered for 45 minutes. She was saying the funeral home she works at lost a ton of siding and had the chimney blow over onto the roof. Lots of trees on houses and power lines down as expected

[Bsktball55]

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That would be heartbreaking. Hopefully they all had crop insurance.

[Babe Winkleworm]

I have been on contact with family. It sounds like health wise everyone was good but alot of damage to crops and barns blown over

[tcesni]

Soybeans are looking ok, corn not so much. Insurance adjusters will be busy until harvest.

[darryl1966]

The crop damage is definitely extensive and will likely impact millions of acres of corn in Iowa alone. A ton of money in research plots also just blew away.

today estimates were upwards of 10 million acres of corn flattened , that is a once in a lifetime kind of storm ,

[pitbully71]

We're still without power, working on a generator for 2 1/2 days now.

[tcesni]

My folks still without electricity this morning, fortunately they have friends that have a generator and have been able to bring them some ice to keep food in the fridge viable. I was visiting them last week, now I'm 1000 miles away, sucks.

[PsuHntr]

we got hit with one here around 8 years ago...it was insane

[tcesni]

today estimates were upwards of 10 million acres of corn flattened , that is a once in a lifetime kind of storm ,

$3.4 billion in potential crop losses in a few hours.