Some places had tornados touching down, others had strong winds. In Day County, it was a combination of strong winds and hail. In an area between Pierpont and Langford, the storm damaged buildings and wiped out fields.
It's survived many storms through the years, but the barn on Owen Olson's family farm couldn't withstand last night's. He was in Langford, where he lives, when he found out.
"I didn't think it would be like this," Olson said. "It's a lot worse than I thought it was."
From the barn to fields surrounding it, Olson is noticing a lot more damage around the farm than he did close to town. He doesn't farm anymore, but those who do farm took a strong hit from the storm as well.
"It is the most damage to crops in the 50 years I've been farming," Jay Dwight said.
Some hail is still sitting in piles in Dwight's fields. He's never had hail wipe out his crops this bad before. His bean fields are bare. He figures he lost all his corn except for maybe 50 acres.
"The field that we're at right now and several more are, no question about it, are almost 100 percent. I mean, they aren't worth attempting to salvage," Dwight said.
He doesn't have a full scope of the damage yet and hasn't decided exactly what to do next. For now, it's just cleaning up.
"Try re-seed I guess and fix our buildings and do our jobs," Dwight said.
Some of those buildings are still damaged from a windstorm last summer. The Olson barn survived that one but it’s on the ground now.
"I ain't too much for this cleaning up stuff, never was," Olson said.
One farmer said the hail that went through Day County covered about a two-mile wide stretch at least 15 miles long.
