Rain, hail, and strong winds swept across Iowa on Friday evening, putting large portions of the state under severe thunderstorm warnings and even knocking out power for thousands.
The storms came as part of a swath of severe weather that swept across the nation called a “bomb cyclone.”
Iowa’s storms were part of the same storm system that moved from the west to the east coast. The storm system spun up a tornado in Southern California , dumped snow on the Sierra Nevada, caused dangerous road conditions in Texas , and spawned fatal tornadoes in the South and Midwest overnight…