A tornado touched down seven miles north of Mount Ayr along Highway 169 at about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, June 1, doing major damage to two properties there before lifting back into the clouds.
The tornado destroyed most of the farm buildings on the Garry Bjustrom farm on the west side of the highway, including doing major damage to Harvestores on the farm with damage in the millions of dollars there. The funnel then did major damage to the Weeda home and outbuildings on the east side of the road about three quarters of a mile north.
A short video of the storm taken by Jenifer Johnson of Tingley is included on the web page. More pictures and coverage of the storm will be included in Wednesday's Mount Ayr Record-News and in a picture gallery that will be up on the web Wednesday afternoon.