January Tornadoes in Iowa? Marginal Risk Issued

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a marginal risk of a few strong storms Monday afternoon across portions of east-central to southeast Iowa. This is because a few storms could produce a couple brief tornadoes and marginally severe hail.

This threat will be conditional, but still warrants watching. It is not very often that tornadoes occur in Iowa in January. In fact, it has only occurred once in recorded Iowa weather history. This happened on January 24, 1967 when 13 tornadoes occurred over the southeast portion of the state.

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