Des Moines, IA — Wednesday afternoon at roughly 2 p.m., the National Weather Service in Des Moines finalized most of its damage surveys from Sunday night’s severe weather event.
A total of six tornadoes were confirmed across Palo Alto, Pocahontas, and Kossuth counties. The strongest occurred in rural Mallard, where an EF1 tornado produced peak winds of 95 mph. It touched down at 9:09 p.m. and lifted at 9:12 p.m., traveling 2.7 miles. No additional comments were included in the report.
Another EF1 tornado was confirmed near rural Plover in Pocahontas County, also with peak winds of 95 mph. It touched down at 9:05 p.m. and lifted one minute later at 9:06 p.m., with a path length of one mile. Survey comments noted damage in Plover, with a tornado reported in the area…