The storms are moving through. I would say anytime we have a warning storm issued through the next two and a half to threehour period be it a severe storm or Tornado Warning you need to stay away from windows need to your get to your safe place basement or lowest floor of whatever structure youre in, know where you can have find a flalalight if it goes out inin the lightning in these systems dont use things that are plugged into the wall stay safe and these storms move through actually quite rapidly. Why dont we take a look justin at all the warnings we have in effect. And it is severe thunderstorms now in effect at this moment i dont see any Tornado Warnings that are in effect right now. The Tornado Warning that has been in effect for iowa county has expired. Thats certainly some good news. However, some wind gusts over 70 Miles Per Hour still remain possible. Again heres the rundown of warnings Grundy County until 5 30. Black hawk until 5 30. Tachld ama until 5 30. Benton until 5 15. Linn 5 45. Iowa county 5 15. Johnson county 5 45. Washington until 5 45. Efferson until 5 45. And then henry county until 5 45. One thing i want to point out is there was that 70mile per hour mined report in Johnson County that was before the heaviest rain came in that was on the very leading edge of the storm. So this is a situation where the strongest winds are going to be coming in really before the heaviest rain arrives and probably as the lightning starts to intensify right about that time. Youre not going to have a lot of time of lightning and rain before the winds come in. It will probably be right on front of it. Dont wait for the storm to arrive because by that point the wind has begun to move in. Lets go ahead now pull up the iowa city city cam lets take a look storm off to the west of iowa city probably arriving lets say within the next 15 minutes t the downtown iowa city areaeaell brinin up the iowa city cam to take a look at the sky. Ill point out two things as we change that title over to iowa youll notice number one the sky is certain dark we see lightning in the distance. This is somethingngoull not be able to see as the storms move in if there happens to be some rotation in the storm, if there happens to be a tornado lightning would be the one aid that you might be able to but with the Fast Movement you certainly cannot do that and boy you mentioned justin there is some intense lightning looking at the city cam live switch over to the lightning tracker well show the lightning as its moving across the area. This is a good indicatioio of the energy within ththe storms, and many times as we watch these storms move across iowa youll see the lightning dissipate that means theyre losing energy, holding their energy as they contntue offf towards the east northeast large area of low pressure thats moving through the area allowing those storms to remain very, very strong. New Tornado Warning respite shortlived thisisas issued a moment ago for Black Hawk County until 5 45. Thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado, six miles southeast of hudson or eight miles south of waterloo moving north east at 45 Miles Per Hour. Well put a Storm Tracker on that as it moves off towards the northeast at about that speed. Well actually just do the whole segment of that line as it moves northeast. So around 5 05 at orange, Hawkeye Community college 5 06 washburn 5 06 junction 5 06 and Mobile Home Parks at 5 07. Gilbertville at 5 08. Waterloo missed that, looks like 5 11 for the waterloo, central part of waterloo in about five to six minutes well start to get that storm moving into the actual downtown parts of waterloo. This is the history with these storms theyve been moving across the area especially when entering eastern iowa all of a sudden enough rotation in that storm that the popoential is there for tornado to develop and its something we need to continue to watch as the storm continues as the line moves in because theyre isolated in nature and theyre moving out to reportsofdamage across iowa as we move through this entire line. Those of you in hudson down towards eagle center over totord gilbertville you certainly want to be in your safe place, and now look at how fast that movement takes it. All the way up now as justin mentioned only takes about five to six minutes for those storms to be moving through the waterloo areaea themselves. Kimble avenue. Hess road. Dieser road if youre familiar with those areas and youre in that area thats the time you need to be in a safe place, and the safest place, of cououe, as the tornado is moving through is the basement or lowest floor of your room. Windows not a good place to be get under something sturdy cover yourself with blankets and pillows as we remind you and kids put the bike helmet on that will afford yoyo protection. Tornado watch across the tv9 viewing area basically along highway 20 and points to the south we do have of crse breemer and Butler County within that watch and that watch continues until 9 00 tonight. It does appear that the Severe Weather threat itself in the tv9 viewing area probably will be going about 7 30 or 8 00 as that storm moves through. Theres again a live look at tv 9s first alert pinpoint Doppler Radar behind the system sue city and Council Bluffs theres rain showers. Once we get this line through the area then we wont have to worry about the Severe Threat anymore. As far as thunderstorms go. Now about ten minutes ago got a report from the Weather Service in des moines they were getting se reports of nonthunderstorm wind gusts over 50 miles an hour in mamahal and tama counties. Theres the potential for some gusty winds behind all this not associated with thunderstorms that well be wching. Thats sothing weve been talking about the last few days winds rampinggup tonight as we head into tomorrow as well. For the time being were focused of course on thunderstorms and and meterologist chris havley and britley and we have coverage from instagram and facebook. These are from 96. 7 fm from south melrose and monroe county, extensive damage, house ripped in half, a roof is torn off, you can see the mud on the side of the house and the cars. Another one from the save credit and you see the ba is destroyed cut in half roof taken off. So this is south monroe and south melrose extensiveamage there. Damage off to our west as well. There have been reports of damage across western iowa as the stormsms move through. They really develop oh right around the noon hour or so back across southwestern iowa continue that movementand once these storms develop and moved instability that wewehad, they really took off and they moved rapidly and occasionally you can get rapidly a tornado develop. Exactly. I was chatting with the Weather Service literallll seconds ago rotation tightening near tiffin they put out a Tornado Warning for that this inudes North Liberty and northern part of Johnson County is under this Tornado Warning. Weather radio going off. Souou eastern part of lili county. Now, this includes probably the south eastern corner of the city of cedar rapids. So its something we want you to do if you live in North Liberty, tiffin, corralville and ely and lisbon south parts of the south part of cedar rapids, east of cedar rapids as well you want to be in your tornado safe place as there is an increase in the rotation and the potential fofo tornado as that moves to the northeast what do we have, 55 Miles Per Hour. So that would put it as kent really the ii0 tiffin exis it 5 11 Mobile Home Park at 511, the Western HillsMobile Home Park 380 interchange 512. Anddoving towards North Liberty at 5 16. Sullivan at 5 22. Sioux falls at 5 15. And twinville heights 5 18 and ely 5 20 and swisher 5 15. State park 5 25. Mount vernon 5 29. This rotation is moving just to the east of north again this is very near the town of tiffin as it moves to the north and east and were near commute time. If you happen to know anybody who normally commutes on 380 right now, tell them they need to go to a safe place immediately becauau this is not a good situation as we have probably a fair amount of traffic on 380 during a Tornado Warning. Lets pinpoint some of the towns, streetshere this wouldd lets see we have 260th street northwest. James avenue northwest. Swan lake road northwest. Heading up to the servoir any of the streets around there are certainly going to be a place that you need to be in a safe place right now. And we are hearing the sirens downtown and across linn and portions of Johnson County. Normalllli would say at are those sirens doing im saying because linn county and Johnson County are either under a Tornado Warning or Severe Thunderstorm Warning i want you to get to your safe place now. As these storms move through, as weve been showing you, they can rapidly develop some rotation and that can lead to tornado very, very quickly. Along with that, the winds have been around 70 Miles Per Hour as these storms have moved through. If you dont have that rotation the storm. That has been causing damage in some areas as well. So right now you need to get to a safe area been talking about this all afternoon if youre under any type of warning via warning, thunderstorm warning, tornado black hawk where you continue Tornado Warning and johnson and linn county under the Tornado Warning and the entire line extends from waterloo to Mount Pleasant where extreme warnings have been issued. You have a funnel picture. We have a pipiure on fusion one. Dakota, from williamsburg, looks very similar to a funnel cloud, could be thats the same storm or close to the same storm thats producing the Tornado Warning now for johnson and linn counties. Looks could be a ask youed cloud but looks very ominous almost like a funnel cloud. Its potentially going to be one thats when there is still a little bit of daylight looking at city rapids on kirk wood campus its night fall youre not going to see a tornado approaching as these come in here. In fact, this is probably the strongest signature that ive seen thus far as far as potential rotation im just going to swing the camera around Southern View unfortunately. But as i spin the camera around i can see theres plenty of lightning going on. Im of course seeing traffic as well. The Radio Partners out traveling northeastern county johnson and nn county you needed to be in a safe place honestly the rotation happening just north of tippin is probably the strongest ive seen in our area so far from this event. Its going to be a situation where ifthere is a tornado hahaening its going to come in quickly no time to react other than going to the safe place immediately. Thats a live picture from our cedar rapids south city cam, lightning heavy rains high windnd potential tornado moving through the area. Now we have two Tornado Warnings in effect. Heres the one thats in effect for portions of johnson as well as linn county. You can se that storm now extending from swisher and north libert down to pippen ely farther south as well move the radar if we can farther to the in effect that continues for portions of Black Hawk County. Back we can sese from waterloo over to Gilbert Ville to dunkerton as we move to the gilbertville and waterloo heading to dunkerton thats the area that can see some of the rotation moving through that potentially could be producing a tornado. That will move into portions of northern Buchanan County see frequent lightning strong winds on the front side of this system about 70 Miles Per Hour the rotation possibly leading again to tornadoic formation. Give you wide view across the tv9 viewing area if youre joining us for our 5 00 news weve been on with you since the mid part of the afternoon with a line of thunderstorms that developed and moved very, very quickly. The loop youre looking at radar is a twohour loop boy those storms move very quickly from des moines all the way to cedar rapids in two hours thats about a 50 to 55mile per hour moment, about 100 miles very, very qukly and they continue that movement off towards the east northeast as the storms move through they produced numerous high wind reports as well as some heavy rain and now were looking at that potential for tornado in two arars one across Black Hawk County as we showed you extending across Black Hawk County near the dunkerton area and move farther down the south south eastern portion of linn county as well as northern portion of Johnson County. Well go ahead and pinpoint some of the area again as that storm now moves we can see the Rapid Movement moving toward the ely area ttwinview heights and chewiville. Moving towards the college campus. The Tornado Warning that extends today and will continue as we move thtough the next what 45 minutes. m going to say even if youre t in thatat Tornado Warning around the western end of it, so lets say you live 380 not near the warning i want you to be in the its going to be heading toward western fringe of that warning box the way its looking at this point. That would be move it close to ultimataty downtown cedar rapids as well. Very close thats something thats somewhat concerning as that rotation does lift off for the north and east. This rotation is just about on top of swisher and chevyville moving east part and north side near marion in just a little while. Let me zoom in here pinpoint some of these streets again where im seeing some of the strongest rotation just south of swisher here. Lets see, where are my streets. 140th street northwest. 120th northeast and fisher pond road northeast, farp road near the lynn Johnson County line and wawaord to the boulevard east of the airport. Vista road near ely near jappa road thats moving toward that direction and if you move on the eastererhalf of cedar rapids i want you to be in your safe place as the storm is moving 55 Miles Per Hour almost highway to this. If youre hearing me say this right now just in your safe place donn wait to see if you see the storm coming in. Thats a good point wanted to point it out we have the one picture of the potential funnel cloud near the Williamsburg Area this is not the time to be going outside trying to take picture of the storm as it moves through 55 mile per Hour Movement you have little time to react as the storm moves in and you need to be in your safe place, that safe place, of course, includes the lowest leveve in whatever strucucre youre in. So if you stayed back at work, find the lowest structure in that area. Go to the basement or lowest floor of whatever building youre in stay away from windows per hour wind or higher will blow around get under something sturdy when you get into the safe place heavy bench or table oounder the stairs another good spot cover yourself with ankets and pillows put on your bike helmet those things protect you as well as that storm passes that will keep you protected as well. We want to remind you we have the tornado watch that continues across most of the tv9 viewing area along highway 20 to dubuque, iowa city and washington that will continue as we move until 9 00 and then the storms evolve and well ultimately move into rtions of illinois and wisconsin. Heres again a live picture from tv9s first alert pinpoint Doppler Radar. Latest picture showing the red box around the area where the Tornado Warning is officially in effect, as w told you earlier along this entire line there are thunderstorm warnings that have been issued. And this is one of those situations where you need to take the thunderstorm warning just as seriously as youre taking any tornadoo wwarning. Youll notice the orange boxes we have extending around linn as we head farther south through Washington County down to henry county we can move that same north all the way up rough areas of Black Hawk County. I with also expect to see Buchanan County put under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning quickly and Tornado Warning remains in effect for portions of northeastern areas of blackck hawk county, particularly now in the dunkerton area and canton area and janesville if youre in those areas surrounded by severe thunderstorm or tornado warngs youneed to be in your safe place now. This is how the system has been moving off to the east northeast as the Movement Continues were watching the storms maintain their strength and they will as they move through thee manchesterr areas. As they move through independence. Theyll be moving through monticello, those in solen or tipton they will set the sun has set its dark and allwe have is lightning out there and radar which were watching thats what as well to see how the storms are moving and evolving. Whwhe are you noticing most of that rotation right now. Right now its crossing 380 near the swisher and chevyville area. Thats close to town of ely and Wright Brothers boulevard and burrthra area and highway 13 where it meets up with highway 30. Ill circle here with my mouse you can see that. Near the swisher area wewe see those red and those greens kind of coming together theres also a little bit of a hook showing the rain wrapping around. Theres certainly some rotation within this particular storm and thats why were watching this, because if its not producing a tornado it could in any moment truth be told this could be probably the strongest picture weve seen in the tipton area weve seen all evening long. You put areas well jump on the weather wall. A little hard to see the mouse as its moving through. What justin is looking at were looking at two Different Things looking inside the storm this is the wind inside the storm thats the latest picture we just got. Were seeing winds move away from the radar site and green means moving towards. And swisher were seeing the rotation counterclockwise fashion. Thats a dar signature that could lead to a tornado or could be a tornado at this time. Back off across the radar more traditional what we see notice how the rain is hooking around the same direction in that same ely moving over to swisher thats the area of great concern we could be seeing the tornado move through and thats why the ornado issue. Siren has been going off weather radar and apps going off. Be in your safe place, tornadoes at night are very difficult because number one youre not going to be able to sese it. Youre not going be able to see visually that that storm is moving in or that youre seeing that tornado. You may hear the rain may hear lightning thats why taking the warnings seriously is top of the line now. Yy wont be able see it go to the safe spot. Warnings in effect all along the line, waterloo to Mount Pleasant in that line youshould be in your safe spot. Get under something sturdy ifif you can cover yourself with blanket and pillows and its best whatever area youre in, if youre waiting wait that storm out its really only going to take about 40 minutes or so for that storm to pass rough and you can get safely to whatever destination you go to as we see it move through. High winds moving in tonight not severe in the sense of severe storms well talk about that certainin as we head through the latter part. Any updates on the warnings or any damage reports we might have coming in. New warning which you might be able to hear from our Weather Radio going off. This includes, i just lost it on my list. Luoisa and muskatene. It keeps moving off towards the east. Couple more weather storm reports. Lets see here. 5 15, hills had a port of pen anyplace sized hail. Lets see, iowa city an estimated wind gust of 60 Miles Per Hour. And at 5 12, so ten minutes ago, in henry county, trenton, a report of an estimated 65mile per hour wind gusts. Lets get the map on here to show you that new Severe Thunderstorm Warning includes southern jones county. All of cedar county includes all of mukatine western clinton and moving through scott and rock county as well as that storm moves off to the east as i would assume still close to 50, 55 Miles Per Hour. Actually Weather Service has put it down to about 40 Miles Per Hour. Id be surprised if it slowed down quite that much well split the difference here call it about 45 Miles Per Hour as it moves off towards the east into our eastern town. So about 40 to Miles Per Hour there. 5 23 at the highway 30 iowa 13 interchange Palisades Kepler State Park 5 24. Oasis 5 25, ttipton, 5 43. The attalisa exit 5 40 campground 5 33, rather than 527. And plater cedar county five clun. Cedar bluff. Tornado for linn county its been cancelled for Johnson County. As of the latetet update, storm, potential tornado located over ely moving northeast at 50 Miles Per Hour. So kind of focusing in on that storm once aggin as the storm is now moving or has moved, r rher, into linn county anan out of Johnson County. Again, this is very near the town of ely moving northeast at about 50 Miles Per Hour. Weve been watching the storms on radar both inside the storm watching at the winds watching how the rains have been moving lets take a look at what the storms look like tv 9s mark carlson in iowa city captured video as storms were moving through notice the sheets of rain moving through. Thats the indication that the high winds were with us, rains very heavy as well from our iowa city newsroom a spot you see mark stding looking over the streeee visibility certainly reduced as well. Lightning in the distance certainly with these storms we showed you plenty of electricity within the storms as well. That shows you why number one you don want to be on the road with these storms, have visibility is reduced and high winds tornadoic threat let they pass through it wont take much time as they move in east northeast youll be able toget your destination safely. Thats what we want you to do. Tornado warning for portions of linn county, area of Johnson County now out of the Tornado Warning itself particularly the south eastern corner of linn county, but yoyore looking at some rotation just where north of the fairfax area right now. Its potential rotation. Its only been here for a couple of scans. Im not sure if its real or t ii highlight it any way. Theres potential rotation starting to pick up just north of the fairfax area moving northeast. Not particularlyconcerned right now at this point because its not asas strong as what wevv been seeing elsewhere however well keep an eye on that. This would affect the west side of cedar rapids you mean towards robin and al bernet if it actually continues otherwise well keep highlighting the main potential tornadoic part which now looks like its about highway 30 near the kirk wood campus moving off toward the north and east. Iowa 13, interchange the Southeast Side of cedar rapids lifting toward the northeast. Lets say the east side of marion where we toward dubuque ill put more streets here. Most likely here near the highway 13 interchange. Some streets for you here would be old river road. Out toward ber tram holes man road as we look toward east ry and Mount Vernon Road where it meets up 151, Cottage Grove parkway another one we have to watch for. Lynn ridge road and it looks like that rnado rning for linn county may have been let go for was it 5 30 expiration i see the red just went away. However because theres still been some rotation on it, im not going to tell you to leave your safe place just yet only because we also still have potential for 70mile an hour winds in addition to the 4 20 tornado coming through looks like the Tornado Warning has been let go for some time encouraging news but its not the all clear. We haveestrong winds coming into extreme storm warning in eastern linn county under the Tornado Warning. Well t that rotation and suddenly that Tornado Warning is back. Want to show as the storm passed through this is a live picture right now from the Kirkwood College campus, south city cam and youre looking at some clearing back off and some ask youed clouds as the storm passes through, nothing from those clouds were noticing it move quickly, keep in mind the Quick Movement and lightning off to the east of the kirkwood campus as it moves east northeast. And some of the storms and gusts weve seen clear creek and manna and regina, 35mile r hour gust from Waterloo West High School and marion so far about 31mile per hour gust look at the marion city cam a little earlier again not any heavy rain in the downtown marion area but streets certainly wet. But heaviest east of cedar rapids through the mount vernon area off across Western Areas of Johnson County. This will be moving right along interate 380 as well anan i was just going to mention the west branch area and pull up west branch. No Tornado Warning for west branch at this time. However im going to assume that that potential is coming because im sing some ne rotation pretty much right on top of west branch moving to the northeast 50th Miles Per Hour west branch moving areas northeast of that stormtrack on tts again. At this time therere no storm warning for this particular part of the storm cedar bluff 5 40 when this would be moving in. West branch im seeing some signs of potential rotation, and well keep an eye on things if we happen get a tornadodo rning on this. And joes actually going to go over here show you exactly what were seeing. Again, its what weve been watching and justin doing some great analysis of the radar, looking both at the winds and the rain and the storm. Youll notice right re this is the winds, the green as well as the red. Green is going towards the radar site. Red moving away well notice the potential near the west branch area there y be some rotation in the storm. Look back off toward the rain area. The radar picture that you see earlier in the day not seeing the rotation qui as much there but you have to look in the storm to see it and thats what were looking at again continuing to follow it as we look into it at the tv lab. As we move through the next two hours the storms still continue to move across eastern iowa. Theyve been ving still at about 50 to 55 Miles Per Hour, and look at that movement. Theyre lifting now through the cedar rapids area and lifting towar independent some of the rain moving northeastern iowa notice its the strongest storms where most of the instability is still located extends now across south eastern areas of linn