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I'm pretty sure hawkeye will get his power back this weekend unless he already has it back.

Just got power back after 9 days. Won't have wifi for awhile as the cable lines need to be replaced but I can live with that. Finally nice to have A/C going and the fan.

https://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KDVN/2008191630.nwus53.html

DVN found damage consistent with 140 mph winds in a destroyed apartment complex in SW Cedar Rapids.

One week later and I'm still without power. Might not get restored until this weekend. Anyways, I'm glad that I still have a house to live in. Sleeping when the room temperature is in the mid 80s is not pleasant lol.

Possibly only the worst hit areas.

NWS DVN found damage consistent to a category 4 hurricane in Linn County. Winds were up to 130 mph. Of course, I doubt there was ever a derecho that produced winds in the category 5 range. 130 mph is almost as high the winds in a derecho can go.

Late reply here. Trees in the backyard are shredded, as with all of the trees in the neighborhood. No damage to the house asides 3 broken windows. I don't anticipate getting power back until at least Saturday or Sunday. Got battery powered fans and non perishable food from Waterloo Walmart yesterday. Also, very glad that we still have running water. Alliant is going to have a field day taking care of that cluster of shredded trees that brought down power lines behind the house. At least no power poles were snapped near where I live. Worst storm that I've ever been through.

I didn't lose power from this although I had a brownout that lasted for about one second (happened about a minute after the winds started). The complex of storms didn't look too impressive on radar and I figured that we would only get some sub severe wind. Boy was I wrong. Several gusts of up to 60-70 mph here. The worst of the winds happened before the rains started (3-4 minutes), which mean that the gust front was ahead of the complex. Winds lasted a good 7-8 minutes here. Hawkeye surely cashed in on this although as you said, he likely lost power. Over 15k people without power in Linn County right down (down from over 18k a bit earlier). Not as bad as June 30, 2014 (which was the last major straight line wind event here before today).

Well, that was fun. The MCS didn't look impressive on radar but boy did it pack some nasty winds. I got about 6-8 minutes of 60-70 mph gusts. Had a brief brownout about 1 minute after the winds started. The winds came 3-4 minutes before the rain and they were the strongest before the rains hit. Pretty sure hawkeye_wx cashed in on this, although not sure if he has power. I never lost power here.

DMX issued Winter Storm Watch for some of their counties. I smell a bust since the models disagree (hardly any significant snow for central Iowa).

GFS has been showing a major ice storm for eastern Iowa for next Wednesday since the 18z run yesterday. Rates don't appear to be heavy but with the duration (over 24 hours) the ice accretion would easily exceed an inch.

12z ICON lost the late week storm.

12z ICON had the low travel due north from extreme western Kentucky into extreme southeast Wisconsin, there it does a loop. 850 mb winds are over 100 KNOTS in east central Iowa in the ICON. Let that sink in, that's surface gusts in the 70+ mph range. Thankfully the Euro and CMC has the low much further east.

Yikes! For here, the winds won't be too bad in the late week system (although gusts will approach 40 mph), although we could get 4-6 inches of snow from that. The early week system snow line looks to be just west of west of here. Nonetheless, going to be disastrous for the crops as the harvest hasn't even began. The October 26, 1997 snowstorm ruined almost all of the soybean crop and half of the corn crop in the affected areas, according to the NCDC event log for that snowstorm.

These two snowstorms are going to be disastrous to the harvest. Millions of dollars of crops will likely be lost due to the snow. Also, not so good news for the power grid as much of the trees still have leaves on them.

ICON shows wind gusts approaching 80 mph over much of eastern Iowa with the late week blizzard, with snow accumulations over a foot. As for the Euro, the wind gusts are nowhere near as strong (only in the 40 mph range). We'll see if the 12z CMC shows it too because it looks like a repeat of 1991, except farther east and without the ice.

12z Euro says repeat of 1991 (Halloween blizzard), albeit a couple days early, not as much wind and hardly any ice. Also, somewhere down the line I expect the GFS to latch on to this potential storm, unless the Euro and CMC loses the storm.

00z Euro continues to crush IA, MN and WI with a blizzard next week. 00z CMC has two snowstorms next week also. 06z GFS and 12z ICON shows nothing so far. If the Euro or CMC verifies, look at the potential for widespread power outages due to most of the trees still having leaves on them (think of October 26, 1997).

Compiled this playlist of all of the videos that I could find of the tornadoes on April 27, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm_yeRok75NttgF3fZOvt2X7dLS5NfJtj

New footage of the Tuscaloosa tornado. At the 35 second mark, you'll notice that it gets dark very quickly. After watching the video a few times, it appears that the tornado passed just feet from their house.

Not sure if anyone has seen this video. An 18-wheeler drives drives right into the tornado. He's lucky since the tornado had weaken to an EF2 when it crossed the interstate.

This is a new video of the joplin tornado. It shows it going from wall cloud to wedge tornado in just 60 seconds.

Where did you hear that from?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC62TRfuJHY