VIDEO: A close call with weather at last year’s Linn County Fair in Central City is prompting fair managers to make some public safety improvements. A funnel cloud passed close to the fairgrounds on the first day of the fair in June of 2017. No one was hurt but high winds did damage a fair building and some campers. Heidi Steffen, fair marketing manager, said the fair doesn’t have a public address system that reaches inside every building or to all the grounds outside. So getting out a warning to people to take cover quickly last year was impossible. The plan now is to expand the audio system so fair goers can get weather warnings and important information wherever they are on the grounds.