The National Weather Service in Des Moines recently included a series in its newsletters about hurricanes whose official track went through Iowa. There have been three:
- The Galveston hurricane of 1900, which made it all the way to Central Iowa as a tropical depression before petering out
- “Hurricane One” of 1921, a rainmaker in southern Iowa
- Hurricane Alicia in 1983 (see p. 8), which entered Iowa near Missouri Valley and went northeast.
The NWS didn’t (and really couldn’t) go into detail about hurricanes whose path did not enter the state but came close.
Friday, the remnants of Hurricane Isaac made their presence known in Lee County while tracking across Missouri, as seen in this radar image from WGEM:
No, Missouri, just because you get a hurricane does not mean you belong in the SEC.