After the storm
Area residents deal with downed trees, branches; Webster City sees parks flooded, power outages
-Submitted photo by Kyle Olson <BR> This basswood tree outside of Moorland was severely damaged in the storm that swept through the area early Wednesday morning.
-Submitted photo by Angie Kiefer <BR> This maple tree in Lehigh took out a chain link fence, a neighbor's privacy fence and landed on a neighbor's roof during the storm that hit the area early Wednesday morning.
-Submitted photo by Kyle Olson <BR> This basswood tree outside of Moorland was severely damaged in the storm that swept through the area early Wednesday morning.
-Submitted photo by Angie Kiefer <BR> This maple tree in Lehigh took out a chain link fence, a neighbor's privacy fence and landed on a neighbor's roof during the storm that hit the area early Wednesday morning.
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Some home owners in Webster County and the surrounding area were cleaning up downed trees and branches after a strong thunderstorm blew through early Wednesday morning.
Anywhere from one to three inches of rain fell in Webster County, according to Dylan Hagen, Webster County Emergency Management coordinator.
However, he said thankfully there wasn't a lot of damage.
"There were some trees that got blown down, but nothing major reported," he said. "When it hit Webster City is when it kind of blew up."
He said the Webster City airport registered winds of around 76 mph, while Kamrar had 63 mph.
Southwest of Vincent wind gusts reached 59 mph.
Hagen said some semis blew over on U.S. Highway 20 near Rockwell City.
Though Hagen said he wasn't aware of any hail in Fort Dodge, hail did fall in other parts of the area early Wednesday, including Manson.
In Hamilton County, damages from the early morning storm were not widespread, but those areas which were hit were dealt with quickly, according to Sheriff Alex Pruismann.
"Flooding of the roads, like the Second Street bridge was the bigger issue," said Pruismann.
"Mostly the city parks were flooding," he said, "the drains couldn't keep up."
Rainfall was widely varied, Pruismann said, with reports of about an inch of rain in Ellsworth, while Blairsburg and Stratford had around three inches.
However, Larry and Elaine Brim, of Webster City, experienced much more property damage from the trees that fell just before 5 a.m.
Limbs poked through the garage roof and many limbs hit the roof of their home. They lost power for most of the day, but it was restored shortly after 4 p.m., according to Elaine Brim. Work will continue on Thursday patching the hole in their garage roof.
The three trees that went down during the storm will take longer to clean up, she said.
"We'll have to get a tree service to take them down the rest of the way," Brim said.
"There were a lot of power outages that Webster City dealt with," said Pruismann, "but the city line department did a great job getting out to fix those quickly."