The National Weather Service also recorded two EF1 tornadoes that occurred Friday in Linn County. Tornadoes are measured ...

National Weather Service crews have now confirmed a total of four tornados touched down on Wednesday. A third EF-0 twister ...

The power company said about 4,000 customers were still in the dark after a peak of 21,800 Tuesday night. By 7 a.m. Wednesday, MidAmerican said crews restored power to about 15,000 of those customers.

Seven tornadoes were recorded in Illinois and one in Iowa. According to QCOMM911, a total of 123 911 calls came in on Tuesday night during the storm, with 158 calls for service.

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.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa will end the month of May with no reports of any tornadoes. The very quiet start to spring comes just one year after an exceptionally busy severe weather season in 2024.

In 2024, the state of Iowa experienced a record total of 125 tornadoes, according to National Weather Service data. The season had a particularly active start, with 98 of those tornadoes happening ...

That compares to more than 100 tornadoes by this date a year ago. Lee says there are several reasons for the smaller number of tornadoes this year statewide. “Last year, we just had a very long ...

Iowa had 98 tornadoes in April and May of 2024, but only three in that period this year. ... Last year, this pattern was closer to the northern United States. This year, ...