2011 Wind Storm
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Residents walk down 10th Street West taking in the damage following an early morning storm in Vinton on Monday, July 11, 2011 (Cliff Jette/SourceMedia Group)
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On Monday, July 11, a complex of severe thunderstorms produced widespread damage as they moved through Marshall, Tama & Linn Counties as well as other areas of Eastern Iowa.
Meteorologists say the damage was caused by straightline winds. Meteorologists estimate the winds reached 80-105 MPH as the storms moved through Marshall & Tama Counties. The communities of Garrison and Vinton were the hardest hit by the winds, which reached 110-130 MPH according to the National Weather Service.
Thousands of people lost power The mayor of Vinton said it could take a week to completely restore power to the community.
Below you'll find our coverage of the storm and its aftermath.
Complete Coverage: 2011 Wind Storm
TOLEDO, Iowa (AP) — Crews continue to clear damage from strong winds that swept through east-central Iowa earlier this month.
Benton County emergency management coordinator Scott Hansen told the Waterloo-Cedar...
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VINTON, Iowa - About 250 volunteers spent Saturday cleaning-up a storm damaged Vinton. Members of local Jehovah’s Witness chapters across Eastern Iowa came to help congregation members damaged on Monday’s...
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VINTON, Iowa - Todd and Sheri Lehman say they felt the storm in Vinton Monday night. They saw the rain and heard the wind, but didn’t hear sirens.
That’s because the outdoor sirens did not go off for...
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VINTON, Iowa - Workers at Vinton's Evergreen Cemetery describe their land as a "war zone." Monday's storm knocked over about 85 percent of the trees and 50 to 100 grave stones. Now the cemetery's two workers...
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VINTON, Iowa - A Naval Airman is home in Vinton this week to help pick up the pieces left by a devastating windstorm.
Airman Apprentice Dakota Andrew, 20, will spend the next seven days under a special...
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GARRISON, Iowa — After storms swept through Garrison Monday, an already crippled fire department had to get back to work early Tuesday morning. Firefighters responded to a house fire at about 5 a.m. in...
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VINTON, Iowa — In Vinton, people are working hard to clean up the mess after the storm, including Virginia Gay Hospital. When the storm hit a 20 foot brick chimney on one hospital building fell over into...
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VINTON, Iowa — Hundreds of homes and businesses in Eastern Iowa remained without power on Tuesday as utility crews scrambled to repair the serious storm damage.
Transmission company crews compared the...
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VINTON, Iowa — The devastating storms that moved across Eastern Iowa early Monday morning impacted the Benton County Speedway.
According to the track’s race promoter Dana Benning, damage caused by the...
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VINTON, Iowa — The city of Vinton remained a disaster area on Tuesday. Thousands are still without power, and the cleanup from yesterday’s powerful storm will take days.
For Gordon Turek, just getting...
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VINTON, Iowa - Emergency management coordinators in counties hit hardest by Monday morning’s severe storms are scrambling to gather damage estimates amid cleanup efforts in hopes of landing federal aid.
Gov....
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VINTON, Iowa - KCRG-TV9's Nicole Agee reports live from the Benton County Fairgrounds in Vinton on Tuesday, July 12, 2011....
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VINTON, Iowa - The clean-up is continuing a day after powerful storms packing winds of more than 100 mph hit central and eastern Iowa, knocking over trees and power lines and leaving thousands without...
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VINTON, Iowa - “On our way down to the basement our kitchen windows blew out,” Marcy Horst of Vinton explained while she and her daughter cleaned up debris from their front yard. That frightening early...
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URBANA, Iowa - Teachers are cleaning up after high winds ripped the roof off of their soon-to-be new elementary school.
Urbana’s Intermediate Elementary School on West Main Street is part of several new...
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GARWIN, Iowa — The Tama County town of Garwin evacuated most of its 585 residents Monday morning after a gas leak was discovered at an apartment complex, Fire Chief Tim Laffoon said.
Laffoon said his...
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VINTON – In her 92 years, Arlene Andrew has never experienced anything like the storm that ripped through Benton County early Monday morning.
”You never know from day to day,” she said as she picked...
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VINTON, Iowa — The Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School in Vinton sustained significant damage in the early morning storm Monday, school Superintendent Patrick Clancy said.
No damage estimate was available...
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DYSART, Iowa - Almost every house in Dysart took some damage in a strong storm that passed through at about 4:30 a.m. Monday.
The winds tossed a grain bin on to Wilson Street, tore the roof from Calvary...
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VINTON, Iowa - KCRG-TV9 News Anchor Beth Malick spoke with Vinton mayor John Watson during the KCRG-TV9 News at 6 on Monday, July 11, 2011....
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GARRISON, Iowa - Firefighters in Garrison wanted to respond immediately to reports of serious storm damage in that Benton County community Monday morning. But there was one significant problem holding...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad has signed an emergency disaster proclamation for Benton County after the county was battered by powerful thunderstorms.
Branstad signed the proclamation Tuesday,...
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VINTON, Iowa- Vinton Mayor John Watson tells TV9's Nicole Agee there's a long road ahead after Monday's severe storms caused significant damage across the town.
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