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A strong supercell developed in northeast Iowa, west of Waterloo in the late afternoon of May 25, 2008. The first tornado warning of the cell was issued at 4:22 pm CDT (21:22 UTC) for the Parkersburg area. A large tornado developed shortly after, touching down two miles south of Aplington in Grundy County at 4:48 pm CDT.
A large, rain-wrapped wedge tornado developed after the EF5 Parkersburg/New Hartford tornado dissipated. In Buchanan county, the tornado struck the south side of Hazleton , where 10 homes, 50 unanchored mobile homes at a dealership, and numerous outbuildings were destroyed.
On the afternoon of May 25, 2008, as part of a large tornado outbreak across the central plains, a large and extremely powerful EF5 wedge tornado devastated the towns of Parkersburg and New Hartford, Iowa. The tornado killed nine people and caused about $75 million in damages across in its approximately 43 mile path across northeast Iowa.
A tornado emergency was also issued for Lamar County, Alabama after one of these large wedge tornadoes caused extensive damage to a school and homes across the Mississippi-Alabama state line in Caledonia, Mississippi and in areas west of Vernon, Alabama. Damage to a marina in Vancouver, Washington.
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
In May 2008, various weather forecast offices of the National Weather Service confirmed 462 tornadoes in the United States. At the time, this was the third most active May on record for tornado activity in the country, only behind 2003 and 2004.
The tornado outbreak sequence of June 3–11, 2008 affected much of the central United States and parts of Canada starting on June 3, 2008 and lasting until June 11; 192 tornadoes were confirmed. The first outbreak affected much of the Midwest and Ohio Valley area on June 3 producing over 20 tornado reports including an EF3 in Moscow, Indiana .
The tornado outbreak sequence of June 3–11, 2008 was a series of tornado outbreaks affecting most of central and eastern North America from June 3–11, 2008. 192 tornadoes were confirmed, along with widespread straight–line wind wind damage.