Tracking Weather Across the State
A round of after-sunset severe weather produced mainly large hail over a good chunk of the central United States Wednesday Night and into Thursday Morning. The filtered reports above are from the Storm Prediction Center, which received around 20 large hail reports from Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. There were [...]
Several homes are damaged and a hospital and community college are knocked out of commission in the Union County town of Creston. The tornado struck early Saturday Night. Some minor injuries were reported, but after a search of affected areas, once again, no deaths reported. This is the best news [...]
Of the more than 100 tornadoes reported in the U.S. last night, there are two communities here in Iowa that learned all too well the terrible damage this tornado outbreak caused. We begin in far western Iowa in the town of Thurman. There, the Mayor tells KETV in Omaha that [...]
It wasn’t a large outbreak, but strong to severe thunderstorms gave many Iowans their first taste of some rocky weather this Spring. Showers and thunderstorms first developed late Thursday Afternoon in portions of western Missouri and eastern Kansas. The storms quickly turned severe and pushed into Iowa, where a solid [...]
My thanks to storm chaser Ben McMillan for bringing this to my attention. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently added two wildfires to the list of weather related disasters this year that totaled more than a billion dollars in damages. That brings the total for the year up [...]
Take a look at the image here. All that white is radar estimated rainfall totals from this storm that have reached the top of the chart, 10 inches or more of rain! That figure has already been verified as areas in and around Dubuque and Galena and many other areas [...]
You really couldn’t ask for a worse time for the lights to go out. Late Monday afternoon the town of Parnell, where I live, lost power. A substation failed nearby, taking out the power and more importantly the air conditioning. It was not a pleasant night as the temperature and [...]
This is the kind of event that we hope comes once in a generation. A powerful derecho (long duration straight line wind event) roared from Des Moines to Ontario, Canada this morning. Along that path here in Iowa, winds that at times topped 130mph. That’s equivalent to an EF-2 tornado. [...]
We’ve said it many times in the past, straight line winds can be just as bad if not worse than a tornado. That’s what may have happened in portions of central and eastern Iowa early this morning. Major damage was reported in several communities in counties including Marshall, Tama, Benton [...]
Thunderstorms that developed late Saturday Night and early Sunday Morning continue at this hour, producing strong to severe bands of showers and thunderstorms. This morning’s primary threat from these storms is large hail and some isolated strong, gusty winds. Around 4:45am 2” diameter hail was reported in Mahaska County. Beyond [...]
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