IOWA – A potential severe weather outbreak is brewing across most of the state early next week. The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has a 30 percent chance for a strong storm system to impact the vast majority of Iowans on Monday. The weather service rarely issues that level of threat so far in advance, according to their outlooks, and while meteorologists stress the forecast could still change, most people in the state should prepare for major impacts related to possible severe weather Monday afternoon and evening.

DES MOINES – Hy-Vee is closing two large-scale food production facilities it opened seven years ago. WHO-13 reports production will be returned back to stores and away from The Fresh Commissary in Ankeny. The move could impact 461 employees. The grocery store chain indicated there would still be work going on at the facility.

DES MOINES – The world’s best athletes wasted little time making their presence known on the first day of the 115th running of the Drake Relays. It took only 20 minutes into Thursday’s opening session for American record holder Rudy Winkler to set both a Drake Relays and Drake Stadium record in the men’s hammer throw, the second-best mark in the world this spring. Nebraska junior Till Steinforth repeated his decathlon championship with a meet record that lifted him to the No. 1 spot in the world this year. Western Dubuque junior Quentin Nauman put the hammer down on the backstretch of the final lap and sped to a Relays record in the high school boys 3200 meters race.