Midwest tornadoes: What a decaying El Niño has to do with violent storms in the central US
- Written by Jana Lesak Houser, Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, The Ohio State University
Dozens of tornadoes hit the central U.S. April 26-28, 2024, tearing through suburbs and small towns and damaging hundreds of homes from Oklahoma to Nebraska and Iowa.
Spring is tornado season in the U.S., but the tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa were quite a bit farther north and east of what would be typical for tornadoes in late April, when tornado...