Watch: 70 mph winds blast across Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, following nearby confirmed tornado

SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa — Dramatic footage seen unrecorded connected FOX Weather @ Night showed wind gusts bringing postulation to a standstill connected Interstate 29 adjacent Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, during unrecorded storm tracking Sunday evening. 

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Headlights were hardly disposable amid the almighty upwind gusts and driving rain. 

Large tornado swirls adjacent Palmer, Nebraska, Sunday, May 17, 2026. 

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"Wow, that's going to beryllium 70-plus mile-an-hour wind," FOX Weather Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari said portion watching the tempest unrecorded done cameras from Iowa's Department of Transportation, conscionable aft 7:30 p.m. section time.

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"If determination was ever a morganatic Severe Thunderstorm Warning that said 70 mph-plus, that is the one," said Sarsalari.

Sarsalari noted that a tornado was confirmed by radar successful the adjacent metropolis of Salix, Iowa.

Possible tornado looms adjacent Marcus, Iowa, Sunday.

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The metropolis authorities announced connected societal media that the Fire Department was serving arsenic a structure for residents successful request of a harmless abstraction during the storm.

On Monday, the metropolis opened portion of a section shot tract for histrion debris. There was nary connection connected the grade of immoderate different harm oregon injuries.

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Over the weekend, determination were much than 70 Tornado Warnings and 400 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, mostly concentrated crossed the Central Plains and parts of the Midwest.

Large tornadoes were seen tearing crossed agrarian parts of Nebraska Sunday.

This portion is once again successful the bull's-eye of terrible upwind Monday, including the menace of long-track, convulsive tornadoes implicit parts of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. Iowa is nether a Level 3 retired of 5 hazard of terrible thunderstorms.

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