Nearly Forty Delaware County Properties Report Damage from Friday’s Tornadic Storm

The National Weather Service has been in Delaware County today, assessing damage after a tornadic storm moved through Manchester, Oneida and rural Greeley. 

Delaware County Emergency Management Coordinator Mandy Bieber says things are looking better than three days ago.

The Storm Prediction Center once again has the southern half of eastern Iowa under a Level 4 Moderate Risk for severe weather Tuesday into Tuesday night, with damaging winds, large hail and strong tornadoes.

On Saturday, Governor Kim Reynolds issued a Disaster Proclamation for Delaware, Dubuque and Linn counties.

People along the storm’s path were still busy cleaning up on Monday. Friday’s storm appeared to hit on the southwest side of Manchester a little before 5:30 pm, heading northeast through town and continuing northeast to Oneida and rural Greeley. Emergency Management says initial assessments show that nearly forty properties were impacted across Delaware County.

Bieber says she hasn’t heard of any homes that were leveled and completely destroyed in Delaware County, but there were some outbuildings destroyed – including at the Wendling farm on the southwest side of Manchester and the Knipper farm in rural Greeley.

Emergency management says around ten power poles were snapped in the storm along Highway 20 and 13 south of Manchester from Quik-n-Handi to Edgewood Oil – and crews have put up new permanent poles in their place. 

top photo in Oneida courtesy of Deb McDowell

middle photo of Dennis Wendling farm on southwest side of Manchester courtesy of Kathy Wendling

bottom photo of snapped power poles on southwest side of Manchester courtesy of Amy Lyness