Guthrie County saw similar storm damage in the northern part of the County much like southern Greene County on Sunday night.

Adair and Guthrie County Emergency Management Coordinator Bob Kempf says the western and northern parts of the County saw severe wind damage to crops and trees along with heavy rainfall that ranged from three-hundredths of an inch to three inches throughout the County.

He points out that at no time were there any tornadoes, but he talks about the 80-90 miles-per-hour straight line winds doing just as much damage as a tornado could do.

“70-80 miles-per-hour straight line wind is the equivalent to an EF-0 tornado as far as wind strength.  The only difference is its blowing down and out instead of rotating.”

Kempf states that larger tree limbs of around 12-inches in diameter were reported to have fallen in Bayard and Jamaica and smaller branches were found in Bagley, Yale, Panora and Guthrie Center.  Jamaica was without power until 2am when Alliant Energy had all of its outages repaired.

He adds that Bayard and Bagley both set off their severe weather sirens because they policy dictates that when there’s high winds prevalent, their sirens will sound.

Kempt notes that he was extremely pleased with the emergency notification system and how well the storm spotters responded to making reports.