Weather

There’s a possibility of three rounds of storms Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities bureau. The strongest storms are expected Tuesday afternoon and evening, and could bring damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes.

According to the National Weather Service, over 20 tornadoes struck Iowa on April 26, killing one in the hard-hit town of Minden in Western Iowa.

1,700 new spotters trained this year by Quad Cities SKYWARN program

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare geomagnetic storm watch — the first in nearly 20 years. That was expected to become a warning Friday night, when the effects of the solar outburst were due to reach Earth.

Most of the lingering drought is in the eastern half of the state, where a vast expanse of formerly extreme dryness is subsiding.

This is the second time Clarke and Pottawattamie counties were included in a disaster proclamation in just over a week.

A lightning strike started a fire in a Cedar Rapids home Tuesday morning, displacing a family, according to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

Of those, 24 struck Western and Central Iowa on just one day.

At least 17 tornadoes struck Iowa on a single day last week, the National Weather Service says.

Pottawattamie County declares a state of emergency, and said at least four people had been injured and 120 homes and businesses were damaged — some of them outright destroyed

Repairs to the transmitter that sends updates to weather radios in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding area were completed Thursday.