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Residents and cleanup crews work to clear debris and restore power after a tornado ravaged the small town of Minden, Iowa, from the April 26, 2024, EF3 tornado.
Tornado damage is seen in Minden, Iowa, Saturday, April 27, 2024. For Austin Ehlers, a firefighter in Persia, a city just about 15 minutes away from Minden, the tornado demolished his grandfather ...
Minden's Facebook page and the Tri-Center Community School's Facebook page have more information, according to the news release. How many tornadoes occurred in Iowa yesterday, April 26?
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
On April 26, 2024, Minden was hit by a large EF3 wedge tornado, as part of a much larger tornado outbreak that affected the Great Plains region. A single fatality and 4 injuries were reported, and the city suffered extensive damage, with estimates of 40 to 50 homes destroyed, and some structures deemed completely lost.
Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people. Photos on social media showed the small city of Minden, Iowa, about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) northeast of Omaha also sustained heavy damage.
An aerial shot of Minden, Iowa after a large tornado devastated the town on Friday, April 26. More: Pleasant Hill tornado classified as an EF-2 with max wind speeds of 125 MPH. ... In Other News.
The tornado outbreak set a new record for the most tornadoes to hit Iowa in a single day with 61, far exceeding the previous record of 35 tornadoes set on August 31, 2014. Additionally, 21 of the tornadoes in Iowa were rated EF2 which beat the previous record of 16 EF2/F2 or greater tornadoes set on June 7, 1984.