More severe weather forecast in Midwest as Iowa residents clean up tornado damage

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and MARGERY A. BECK
Associated Press

GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Storms downed trees and power lines in Iowa, days after a destructive tornado ripped apart more than 100 homes in one small town, took the lives of four residents and injured at least 35 more. The National Weather Service’s office in Davenport Iowa, warned Friday morning that people should be ready to shift plans and expect the rapid onset of thunderstorms as a fast-moving line of storms moved east through eastern Iowa and Illinois. Ryan Bunker is a meteorologist with the weather service’s Norman, Oklahoma, office. Bunker says a tornado was on the ground for about an hour Thursday evening in Jackson County and neighboring counties as a slow-moving storm moved through. A survey team is headed to the area Friday morning.