It's a 10-tornado Tuesday for Iowa PHOTOS VIDEO

DES MOINES, Iowa - All those tornado warnings, cell phone alerts, and outdoor warning sirens this week?  It was real.

Iowa had a ten tornado Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Des Moines.

The strongest tornado was in Union County near Creston, which was rated EF-2.  

In Adair County, an EF-1 tornado was confirmed about 9 miles south of Stuart.  

The rest were EF-0 tornadoes.  They were located in Centerville, Near Rathbun, near Janesville, Near Brooklyn, Near Tama, Clutier, Montezuma and near Grinnell. 

Damage was mostly to trees and crops, although there were reports of a roof being blown off a house and a garage destroyed near Creston, and report of hangar damage at the Centerville airport.  

The storms also brought heavy rain to southern and south central Iowa.  A monitoring point near the Marion County town of Knoxville has measured eight inches of rain over 5 days.  

Tornadoes hit southern and south central Iowa VIDEO PHOTOS


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