This may not be the season for tornadoes and we’ve seen in the past that tornadoes can occur at any time no matter what the calendar says. One such occurrence was 35 years ago on a Saturday evening in 1978. On this day, a lunar eclipse was taking place in Asia, eastern Africa and far eastern Europe. In Football, Iowa …
May 25, 2008 Parkersburg-New Hartford EF5 Tornado
A typical Memorial Day weekend was in the works across the state. It was a Sunday, many people were running around, graduation parties were taking shape, people were outside enjoying the warm weather that encompassed the state that day. Meanwhile the atmosphere was about to unleash a monster that would be the first catastrophic tornado to hit the state in …
Washington Tornado 1998
Tornado Watch View Text 821 WWUS32 KDSM 152131 SLSIA IOWA AREAL OUTLINE FOR TORNADO WATCH 358 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 429 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1998 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 358…VALID UNTIL 1100 PM CDT… INCLUDES 20 COUNTIES IN THE FOLLOWING PARTS OF IOWA… NORTHEAST EAST CENTRAL SOUTHEAST SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE… BETTENDORF BURLINGTON CEDAR …
Dunkerton Tornado of 2000
This tornado would be remembered more for being similar to the Parkersburg-New Hartford Tornado 8 years later. Some of the same areas were hit by this tornado and again in 2008. Here is the watch that was issued just after 6pm that Thursday Evening. View Text URGENT – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 264 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK …
Two Years Later: April 27, 2011 Tornadoes
With our weather nice and warm this weekend, an anniversary of an outbreak that will be etched in the memories of those who were and those who weren’t effected by the April 27th 2011 outbreak comes around again today. Our weather that day was quiet and cool as the system that went on to produce the violent tornado outbreak had …
April Blizzard of 1973
When you think of April, you think of trees budding, grass beginning to turn green, flowers starting to poke out of the ground and bloom, farmers getting into their fields to prepare for Spring Planting and the first days you’re able to open the windows and let the fresh warm spring air in after a long winter. Mother Nature had …