Severe Weather Hits Heartland
2 Dead, More Than A Dozen Injured In Iowa

More Severe Weather Expected

Texas, Oklahoma Under Storm Watch

LOGAN, Iowa
Monday, May 17,1999 - 02:34 PM ET
 

Damage from Sunday's tornado

CBS) At least two people died and more than a dozen were injured when tornadoes hit Iowa Sunday.

On Monday, severe weather threatened and a thunderstorm watch was issued for northern Texas and southern Oklahoma. It warned of the possibility of large hail, damaging winds and dangerous lightning in those areas.

But on Sunday, it was the small town of Logan, Iowa, that was particularly hard hit, reports Andy Roesgen of CBS Omaha affiliate KMTV.

At the Iowa Welcome Center in Logan, off Highway 30, there was a lot of damage including downed trees and trees split in half.

About a dozen people pulled off the highway Sunday when the storm hit and went to the Welcome Center to wait for the storm to pass.

The real danger came in flying farm equipment. In fact, in Harrison County, the two people killed died when a piece of a combine hit their car. And, a mobile home was picked up and taken away.

Besides the two deaths, about six homes were destroyed. In one home that was heavily damaged, the family was holding a graduation party for 40 Logan high school students. Reportedly, one of those killed was the mother of one of this year's high school graduates.

Unlike in Oklahoma and Kansas, a lot of people in Iowa have storm cellars. But the area also has a history of flooding and with more severe weather expected Monday in the center of the nation, flooding may be the next problem residents will have to face.

Logan is about 20 miles northeast of Omaha, Neb.
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