The damage was done to the town of Parkersburg and the subdivision just north of New Hartford. Several other residents and farms between the two towns and on eastward into Black Hawk County were also damaged if not destroyed. The storm however wasn’t done producing tornadoes. As everyone begin to assess the situation in those …

The radar above showed the storm moving into southern Butler and northern Grundy Counties. The small red area east of Ackley was to be where the tornado would come out from. At 4:46pm, the NWS in Des Moines reissued the tornado warning specifically to Butler and Northern Grundy Counties BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO …

A typical Memorial Day weekend was in the works across the state. It was a Sunday, many people were running around, graduation parties were taking shape, people were outside enjoying the warm weather that encompassed the state that day. Meanwhile the atmosphere was about to unleash a monster that would be the first catastrophic tornado …