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Get the Cedar Rapids, IA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Tornadoes rip through South as destruction seen in multiple states amid deadly severe weather outbreak.
A June 1976 edition of the Des Moines Register reports on Minden's recovery effort after a devastating tornado. The town was hit and severely damaged again in April 26 storms.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa was one of, if not the hardest hit area during the floods of 2008. The Cedar River crested at 31.12 ft (19 feet above flood stage) at 10:15 am on Friday, June 13, 2008, with the flood waters expected to fully retreat by June 24, barring any more heavy rains.
Before Cedar Rapids was incorporated, May's Island was a low, marshy piece of land in the Cedar River (then called the Red Cedar), prone to flooding and covered with scrubby brush and trees. Because of the undergrowth and its inaccessibility, it was reputedly used by local horse thieves as a spot to temporarily hide their loot.
The tornado outbreak generated 38 significant tornadoes, 18 of them violent—F4 or F5 on the Fujita scale of tornado intensity—and 22 deadly. Covering six states and about 335 sq mi (870 km 2 ), the outbreak killed 266 people and became the deadliest to hit the United States since 1936 , although more recently the 1974 and 2011 Super ...
Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O’Donnell asked the commission for a “fair shot” at opening a casino, saying the idea was overwhelmingly popular within Cedar Rapids, evidenced by Linn County ...
National Weather Service Quad Cities is a National Weather Service weather forecast office based in Davenport, Iowa. [1] It is tasked with providing weather and emergency information to 21 counties in east-central and southeast Iowa, 13 counties in northwest and west-central Illinois, and two counties in extreme northeast Missouri.
Multiple tornadoes touched down in the southern United States over the weekend, killing at least four people from Texas to North Carolina, amid a wintertime severe weather outbreak. As of January ...