From: Belmond Independent

I know this is a little late, but I just heard about it today.

Tuesday night about 9 p.m. three miles north of Belmond.
Could there have been a tornado?

Here are three photos. The one called FlatCorn is what most of the
crop
damage looks like over a 6 square mile area -- 2 miles north and
south and
about 3 miles east and west, It's right on the Wright and Hancock
County
line. Large, wide, mostly even areas of fallen corn.  They are spaced
oddly
-- some here and there, some fields okay, some fields only the edges,
some
fields have the center section knocked down.

Nearby, however, I took TunnelCorn, which shows a long, narrow path
of corn
knocked down -- a much different pattern than the first photo.

Interestingly, the photo TreeOver was taken on the opposite side of
the road
from the TunnelCorn photo. The tree that was uprooted was in a grove
of
trees, was in exact alignment with the TunnelCorn, and was the only
tree
nearby to fall. Sort of like a tiny tornado went through the field,
crossed
the road, hit the tree, then went back up.
There were other trees randomly uprooted in this six mile area. But
this one
was the most interesting.

I'm no expert. Just thought you might like to see these and compare
them to
any old radar images you might have from August 21 about 9 p.m.

Dirk van der Linden