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A car sits in floodwater in Council Bluffs on Tuesday. Storms targeted a swath of the Midwest, including states where voters were casting ballots in primary elections. (Photo: Associated Press )
Portions of Iowa were battered Tuesday with tennis ball-sized hail, wind gusts exceeding 80 miles per hour and one possible tornado.
At least the state didn't get the softball-sized hail – that would be 4.25 inches – that hit Kennard, Neb., meteorologists said.
Still, the storm that moved into Iowa on Tuesday evening produced widespread heavy rain and high wind, and hit southwest Iowa particularly hard.
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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad issued a disaster proclamation for Pottawattamie County Tuesday evening.
Hail the size of golf balls was reported in Council Bluffs, along with wind gusts of more than 60 mph. Crescent, also in Pottawattamie County, saw gusts of 80 mph.
Portions of the county got 4-5 inches of rain, and flash flooding was reported.
A tornado was spotted near Oakland. That was the only report of a twister Tuesday, but it has not yet been confirmed.
Several grain elevator roofs were blown off, meteorologists said.
About 2,100 MidAmerican Energy customers in Council Bluffs are still without power.
Other southwest Iowa areas were also hard hit.
Lamoni got more than 5.5 inches of rain Tuesday. Beaconsfield saw 3.56 inches and Osceola got 2.21 inches. Lineville, in Wayne County, reported 10 inches of water over a roadway and a river in Davis City exceeded flood state, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kurt Kotenberg.
Lamoni also reported 2.5-inch hail, and several areas including Mount Ayre, Clarinda, Diagonal and Lennox got golf ball-sized hail.
Most of the damage was reported along the Nebraska-Iowa border, meteorologists said.
As the storm moved east across the state the brunt of it skimmed south of the Des Moines metro, which saw heavy rainfall.
About 1.2 inches of rain was recorded at the Des Moines Airport.
"The good news is it looks like we'll be clear and dry for the next couple of days," Kotenberg said.
A high-pressure system will keep rain away from Iowa through most of the week.
Storms could return this weekend, but forecasters are still working to determine how severe they could be.
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