The state's largest November tornado outbreak on record took place Nov. 11, 2015. At least 19 tornadoes struck Iowa that ...

When is tornado season, and why hasn't it been as harsh in Iowa this year? In 2024, the state of Iowa experienced a record total of 125 tornadoes, according to National Weather Service data. The ...

Thursday’s Imogene-Essex, Iowa tornado was an EF-1 with winds of 110 mph. The maximum width was 3130 yards, which is 1.8 miles wide! This is not just the widest tornado in Iowa history, but also the ...

Devastating tornadoes are tearing across parts of eastern Nebraska and Iowa on Friday as a multiday severe thunderstorm event ramped up in the central United States, injuring at least three people.

April 2024 tornado damage in Minden. (National Weather Service photo) After last year’s record tornado outbreak, Iowa is having a relatively mild severe weather season this year, according to state ...

Wednesday marks 20 years since Iowa’s rare November 2005 tornado outbreak, when 12 twisters struck the state, killing one ...

The widest tornado in Iowa’s history touched down Thursday night near Essex, Iowa. 1.78 miles. 3130 yards. More than 31 football fields. That’s how wide the twister was as it ripped through nearly 20 ...

State climatologist Justin Glisan says May was a quiet month for severe weather, after the record-setting and deadly May we had last year. “We had no reported tornadoes across the state. We had one ...