Category: Severe Weather

Severe Weather

Numerous Tornadoes in SE South Dakota

Numerous tornado warnings and confirmed tornadoes have occurred in southeastern South Dakota this afternoon. The latest confirmed tornado was located 14 miles southwest of Mitchell moving slowly southeast at 10mph. There was a wall cloud briefly on the webcam from Mitchell but it has since disappeared. These storms (likely not severe) will move into NW …

Flooding, Historical Weather

One Year Later: The Flood of 2008 Part 3

Recovery has been slow and long in the year since the flood water receded. Numerous houses are being bulldozed and many residents are waiting for buyouts. Damage has been estimated over 1 Billion Dollars in Iowa, making it one of the worst disasters in the United States. Many businesses have reopened in the flood damaged …

All of Iowa, Flooding, Historical Weather

One Year Later: The Flood of 2008 Part 2

The rivers are embeded in memory, Cedar, Wapsipinicon, Iowa, Des Moines, Mississippi, Turkey, Upper Iowa. They are along with many others were the ones that flooded to in some cases unbelieveable records. For only the second time ever, the Coralville Reservoir went over the emergency dam, (the other time was 1993) and crested just over …