Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Watch. around 95 degrees Folks, we've got two serious weather stories unfolding right now, first, severe thunderstorms are hammering northern Iowa as we speak. We're talking damaging winds up to 70 miles an hour and large hail. These storms rolled in around 9 A.M.