{"id":6314,"date":"2015-06-30T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2015-06-30T02:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T07:02:19","slug":"one-year-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/one-year-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"One year ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An EF2 tornado hit Traer during Monday&#8217;s storm, a deadly system that lashed Northeast Iowa with vicious winds and torrential rain. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/news\/local\/update-tornado-responsible-for-damage-in-traer\/article_73c7eed5-8920-5e6e-93b9-681491688ea5.html\">Waterloo Courier, July 1, 2014<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In all, the &#8220;One-two Punch&#8221; derechos of June 30, 2014 produced more than 300 non-duplicate reports of severe weather from eastern Nebraska to southern Michigan and northwest Ohio, including nearly two-dozen short-lived tornadoes (path lengths less than ten miles and durations less than ten minutes). The first derecho tracked from central Iowa to Lake Michigan (a distance of 320 miles) in five hours, with an average forward speed of 64 mph. \u2014 NWS Storm Prediction Center: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/misc\/AbtDerechos\/casepages\/jun302014page.htm\">Midwest Derechos of June 30-July 1, 2014<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6315\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoannivkcci.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoannivkcci.jpg 550w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoannivkcci-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/em><br \/>\n<em> June 30, 2014, 2:09 PM. Screen capture from KCCI, which was clearly waffling about whether this was &#8220;in the viewing area&#8221; but stuck with it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6316\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv1.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv1.jpg 540w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo taken July 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6323\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv2.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv2.jpg 540w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo taken July 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6317\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv6.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv6.jpg 540w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv6-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo taken July 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6318\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv3.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv3.jpg 540w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Toledo Street and Westview Street, Traer.\u00a0<em>Photo taken July 2<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6319\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv7.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv7.jpg 540w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tornadoanniv7-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo taken July 3<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An EF2 tornado hit Traer during Monday&#8217;s storm, a deadly system that lashed Northeast Iowa with vicious winds and torrential rain. \u2014 Waterloo Courier, July 1, 2014 In all, the &#8220;One-two Punch&#8221; derechos of June 30, 2014 produced more than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/one-year-ago-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}