Iowa has experienced a significant decrease in tornado activity in 2025 compared to 2024. While the state typically averages 40 to 50 tornadoes each year, 2024 saw a record-breaking 125 tornadoes ...

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 ...

The state's largest November tornado outbreak on record took place Nov. 11, 2015. At least 19 tornadoes struck Iowa that Wednesday afternoon when a powerful low-pressure center dragged a fast-moving ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa Although Iowa lies in Tornado Alley, not every town in this state has outdoor tornado warning sirens. Officials in Agency, the southeast Iowa town where a 2001 tornado destroyed 60 ...

SKINNER AND TIMOTHY GANDOLFO. MINDEN. IOWA LOST NEARLY HALF ITS HOUSING WHEN A TORNADO RIPPED THROUGH TOWN LAST YEAR. THE TOWN CONTINUES TO RECOVER. AND IT’S NOT JUST FAMILIES REBUILDING HOMES TODAY.

Severe weather has prompted the closure of the Lansing Car Ferry on Saturday, affecting traffic on both directions of Wisconsin Highway 82 at the Iowa-Wisconsin ...