Massive #tornado with multiple vortices rips down windmills and damages homes in Iowa including Greenfield, Iowa. Dominator FPV drone orbited the tornado racing northeast at 55 mph. Dominator 3 could have directly intercepted this tornado. Major tornado outbreak underway
On May 21, 2024, multiple powerful tornadoes tore through southwest Iowa, resulting in fatalities and significant damage. The town of Greenfield, home to about 2,000 people, was hit especially hard. The Adair County Memorial Hospital sustained tornado damage, forcing some storm victims to seek assistance elsewhere. The destruction in Greenfield left a large section of the town leveled, with multiple fatalities and more than a dozen injuries
H/T Dr. Roy Spencer
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There’s nothing extraordinary here since this part of the US is particularly tornado-prone at this time of year. One of the country’s worst weather-related disasters was the Tri-States tornado that struck Missouri, Iowa and Illinois in March, 1925 killing around 700 and destroying nearly 10,000 houses and buildings. Somehow this managed to occur long before it was fashionable for climate alarmists (if any existed at the time) to claim such weather extremes were the result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions.
I’m shaking my head, trying not to laugh.
Eastern IA has old windmills all over – used to pump water from wells long ago.
I don’t know about SW IA.
Some areas of IA are tornado territory, SW of Cedar Rapids for example.
Didn’t builders of modern windmills look around, read history, ….?
Greenfield looks like a typical IA town – large brick edifice that is either county courthouse or church.
(And I has BIG churches, the spire in Holy Cross IA can be seen for a long way. (If you are out that way, that church has much fine woodwork inside. It was damaged by a tornado in 2004 – at the eastern edge of IA.))
Agriculture is a primary industry, many modest towns have a local manufacturing industry. Cedar Rapids has a substantial tech industry, notable Collins Radio and successor (now part of RTX).