Iowa weather:Effects of Monday's derecho will linger for thousands of Iowans Reynolds said the storm left behind more widespread damage than a typical tornado. Cleanup is underway following severe weather that produced several reports of tornadoes as storms moved through Eastern Iowa. A storm can be classified as a derecho if, by definition, the wind gusts are at least 58 mph and the swath of wind extends more than 240 miles, according to NWS. He said crews from this area were sent to hard-hit Quad-Cities, Iowa City and Des Moines to assist in getting power restored.A bicyclist who was injured in an early Sunday morning collision with a car has died.Authorities have released the identity of the woman who died early Sunday in a bicycle crash.A Waterloo woman has been arrested for allegedly shooting into a car carrying children and others in April.A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital following an early Monday morning crash in Waterloo.WATERLOO – With homes destroyed and thousands without power in Cedar Rapids, many people are traveling north for staples, leaving some Northea…A Friday afternoon crash in Grundy County has claimed the life of a Cedar Falls man.A Waterloo man accused of robbing a motel at knifepoint is now charged with leading police on a chase in a stolen car before the robbery.CEDAR RAPIDS — Iowa 1st District Rep. Abby Finkenauer and Daniel Wasta married Saturday at the couple’s home. Storms leave 340,000 without internet, cable in Iowa/Illinois Marshalltown and Story County issued civil and severe storm emergencies in the wake of the severe weather. The first tornado reports came in … You can cancel at any time. Several roads continued to be closed due to downed power lines across eastern Iowa. Please subscribe to keep reading. Downed trees and other debris cover front yards in Cedar Rapids after a powerful storm moved through Iowa on Monday.WATERLOO — Heavy storms and high winds that largely spared Northeast Iowa nonetheless have caused outages in everything from cell phones to cable TV in the Cedar Valley even a day later.A derecho that whipped through the midsection of Iowa on Monday snapped four different telephone poles in and around Cedar Rapids, cutting power along with phone and fiber lines, said Mediacom spokesperson Thomas Larsen.Those multiple cuts to the fiber lines took out the redundancy built into Mediacom’s system, meaning that even when the power was restored, fiber couldn’t be rerouted.That affected a much larger range of customers than just in Cedar Rapids.“Usually, you’ll have these where it’s isolated to a market,” Larsen said. Enjoy more articles from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls' Most Trusted Information Source. MidAmerican reports 200,000 of its customers continue to be without power across Iowa; more than 210,000 Alliant Energy customers are still without power across the state.MidAmerican reports that, due to the extent of the damage caused by the storm, "power restoration efforts could take multiple days. Portions of central Iowa saw winds over 100 miles per hour during the morning storms. Storm damage in Iowa City. Subscribers can log in for unlimited digital access

WATERLOO — Heavy storms and high winds that largely spared Northeast Iowa nonetheless have caused outages in everything from cell phones to cable TV in …