, took the lives of four residents and injured at least 35 more.The National Weather Service’s Quad Cities office in Davenport Iowa, warned Friday morning that people should be ready to shift plans and expect the rapid onset of thunderstorms as a fast-moving line of storms moved east through eastern Iowa and Illinois. The storms brought the threat of large hail and damaging winds with the possibility of embedded tornadoes in the region.
”“You look around and are just so grateful that the community didn't lose more than what we did,” Beitz said.Colton Newbury was working in Des Moines when the twister hit, nearly 60 miles away from his wife and 10-month-old daughter in Greenfield.He rushed back only to find their home was “a hole in the ground,” he said. His wife hadn’t heard the sirens. Newbury said his cousin ran out to get his wife and baby, and they rode out the tornado in the cousin’s basement.