Iowa Tornado Climatology (NWS Des Moines)

[mikegeukes]

Found this today, Iowa Tornado Climatology 1980-2008
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/IowaTorClimatologyFinal-2008.pdf

 

[Rob Wadsworth]

Interesting that the statistics showed more tornadoes for Iowa in June.
The worst statistic in the report showed the greatest numbers of deaths were last year.
Thanks for that link, Mike G...

 

[Derek Weston]

Iowa wasn't terribly far off Kansas if we look at tornadoes to square miles ratio.

 

[Jeff Duda]

Definitely a very above average year across the board for tornadoes in Iowa.

 

[Rob Wadsworth]

Yeah, most of them in the south, southeast, and eastern Iowa. Here in NW Iowa, it was pretty uneventful this year. 'Cept for the Boy Scout camp event; but that was still sixty miles south of my corner. Most of this area was unaffected by the rain as most other parts of Iowa were devastated by floods. It seems that many of the same areas that flooded were also seeing the greatest amount of tornadoes.

 

[Jason Harris]

Has there been a full study on the weather set up for the Parkersburg storm? Is that available somewhere online?

 

[Danny Neal]

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/P...ssmntfinal.pdf

 

[Jason Harris]

Cool, thanks for the pdf Danny!
[don't see any mention of type of supercell from a quick skim or explaining its evolution though in the "Service Assessment EF5 Tornado in Parkersburg and New Hartford, Iowa May 25, 2008" Have to see after fuller digestion of the 50 pages]