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NWS: At least 12 confirmed tornadoes touched down Wednesday in Iowa

NWS: At least 12 confirmed tornadoes touched down Wednesday in Iowa
OUR TEAM 8 COVERAGE LIVE FROM LAKE CITY, WHERE CREWS SPENT THE DAY ASSESSING THE DAMAGE. CHRIS: THE NATIONAL WEATRHE SERVICE IS STILL CRUNCHING NUMBERS, PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER, BUT THIS WAS ONE AREA WHERE IT W HITAS. THIS PARKING LOT IS LITTERED WITH DEBRIS. THERE IS A PIECE OF ASPHALT SHINGLES THAT RIPPED OFF A ROOF. NOT TOO RFA AWAY, A PIECE OF INSULATION LEFT LITTERING THE OUNDGR THAT IS MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. JUST ACROSS THE STREET, ACROSS FROM HIGAYHW 175, YOU SEE THE BARNHE T COLLAPSED IN ON ITSELF. >> ABSOLUTELY. CHRIS: THIS METEOROLOGIST WAS PART OF THE CREW PIECING TOGETHER THE DAMAGE LEFT BEHIND BY WEDNESDAY’TWISS TERS THAT RIPPED THROUGH NORTH CENALTR IOWA. >> AT ONE POINTWE, HAD FOUR OR FIVE TORNADO WARNINGS AND TORNADOES GOING ON 45 SIMULTANEOUY,SL WHICH IS PRETTY RARE. IT’S BEEN A COUPLE OF YEARS SINCE WE’VE SEEN THIS MANY TORNADOES. WE ARE LOOKING AT PROBABLY 10-PLUS TORNADOES. AGAIN SOME WERE VERY BRIEF BUT , SOME LIKE THIS WERE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. CHS:RI THIS IS WHERE THE TORDONA PICKP SO UME INTENSITY CAUSING SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE, THE WORSOFT THE DAMEAG MISSED LAKE CITY BY ONLY FOUR MILES OFF TO THE EAST. >> THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MAGEDA WE’VE FOUND HAS BEEN EAST OF LAKE CITY. THERE WAS ONE RESIDENCE THAT WAS IMPACTED SEVERELY AND OTHER OUTBUILDING, A FARM TOU BUILDING, A TURKEY FACILITY AND , THEY ARE DAMAGED QUITE SEVERELY AS LL.WE CHRIS: THE WEATHER SERVICE PRIORITIZES THEIR SURVEYS STARTING WHERE THE DAMAGE IS , MOST SIGNIFICANT, AND THEN THEY TURNED TO SATELLITE TO FIND TORNADO SCARS LIKE FLATTENED CROPS OR WHERE TORNADOES TEND TO STAY OVER OPEN AREAS AGAIN, THEY TAKE ALL OF THE DAMAGE THAT YOU SEE, PIECE IT TOGETHER AND THEY ARE ABLE TO GIVE AIND W SPEED AND AGNLIMENT WITH WHAT WINDPEED S CAUSED THIS KIND ODAMAF GE SPREAD THE DAMAGE GOT A LOT WORSORE MY COLLEAGUE ANDREW MOLLENBECK IS, ABOUT FOUR MI
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NWS: At least 12 confirmed tornadoes touched down Wednesday in Iowa
At least twelve confirmed tornadoes touched down Wednesday in central Iowa, according to the National Weather Service. According to the National Weather Service, supercells over north-central Iowa produced tornadoes along the Highway 20 corridor.The National Weather Service confirmed tornado reports from Nemaha, Lake City, Stanhope, Jewell, Waverly, around Dysart and south of Mason City. Storm surveys will be conducted Thursday to assess the tornadoes’ locations and EF ratings.

At least twelve confirmed tornadoes touched down Wednesday in central Iowa, according to the National Weather Service.

According to the National Weather Service, supercells over north-central Iowa produced tornadoes along the Highway 20 corridor.

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The National Weather Service confirmed tornado reports from Nemaha, Lake City, Stanhope, Jewell, Waverly, around Dysart and south of Mason City.

Storm surveys will be conducted Thursday to assess the tornadoes’ locations and EF ratings.